On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Ted Unangst <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Steven R. Gerber > <[email protected]> wrote: >> The partitions/mounts problem is far more disconcerting. What if I need >> to save data to a striped array to do the migration? >> Recreating/resetting those parameters is dangerous. How can I create >> and use a site script to preserve them through install? Is it possible >> to do an install without walloping the existing filesystem(s)? (Deleting >> files is OK.) > > The installer will not overwrite an existing disklabel if you have one > and will only newfs filesystems that have mount points. This is easy > to screw up if you aren't careful, but it's certainly possible to do a > clean install and keep some filesystems from before.
beautiful feature I count on on every install!
