Subject: Re: sysinst question: What's "Preserve" when labeling disk?
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/09/2003 09:49:58
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:19:05AM +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> > When labeling a hard disk before installing binary sets for 1.6.1,
> > there was an item "Preserve" which I don't recall seeing in previous
> > versions. The title line has the usual Size, Offset, End, FStype,
> > Bsize, Fsize and Mount Point, but now with an extra "Preserve" second
> > from the right. I looked in INSTALL.html, but I didn't see any
> > explanation.
> >
> IIRC it means that the currently existing filesystem is left "as is",
> i.e. it isn't newfs'ed during the install process.
To avoid confusion I've changed sysinst to label the column 'newfs'
(and inverted the yes/no)
David
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