May I read and write to NTFS partition from OpenSolaris?
Miro. On 2/4/08, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ian Collins writes: > > Miroslav Nachev wrote: > > > After that I do new installation but then my existing data is lost. Is > > > there any option to prevent disk formating and erasing? > > > > > > > > You should learn to use Live Upgrade, then if an upgrade fails, you can > > revert back to your previous version. > > > > You would be better working out what went wrong (knowing which version > > you upgraded from would help) and fixing it. > > Both of those sound like good pieces of advice to me -- particularly > the bit about providing as much information as you can with a problem > report, as we can't do much to fix "my Solaris stop working." > > But to answer the original question, yes, you can do that. I would > suggest placing the Solaris installation on a separate disk slice (or > a completely separate disk). When you do the re-install, you tell the > installer to preserve the data slices and which disk to use. > > If you use ZFS, it's even easier, as you can import those file > systems, and ZFS figures out where the old mount points go and all > that. (With UFS, you'll need to keep this information written down > somewhere so that you can restore the /etc/vfstab entries.) > > Of course, this is UNIX, and re-installing to fix problems seems at > least a little odd ... > > -- > James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 > MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 >
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