Subject: Re: sysinst question: What's "Preserve" when labeling disk?
To: henry nelson <netb@irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp>
From: Lubos Vrbka <shnek@chemi.muni.cz>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/24/2003 10:19:05
> 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.

regards,
lubos

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