Re: 8.0-RELEASE upgrade -- no files visible

2010-04-28 Thread A. Wright
Some further information . . . recap: failures mounting filesystems that were not in dangerously dedicated mode . . . I have now managed to move many of the files by doing the following: - run fdisk, label and newfs under 8.0 - reboot to 7.2, mount, place files on device - reboot to 8, files

8.0-RELEASE upgrade -- no files visible

2010-04-27 Thread Andrew Hamilton-Wright
I have a puzzler. After postponing an upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0 for some time, I now am attempting to make the transition. In the 7.2 install, I have one dangerously dedicated disk used only for backup (the accommodation of which is why I postponed the install in the first place), as well as a