Subject: Re: sysinst question: What's "Preserve" when labeling disk?
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/09/2003 10:56:52
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On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 09:49:58AM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> 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.
> >=20
> > IIRC it means that the currently existing filesystem is left "as
> > is", i.e. it isn't newfs'ed during the install process.
>=20
> To avoid confusion I've changed sysinst to label the column 'newfs'
> (and inverted the yes/no)

i can't see how is this less confusing for new users who don't know what
'newfs' means.


regards,

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