Hi, On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:00:15 +0100 Leslie Jensen <les...@eskk.nu> wrote:
> > I just read in another post about disklayout > _____________________________________________________________ > According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment > and block sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided your > partitions/slices are 4k aligned everything Should Just Work. > Before 9.0 fragments and blocks were 2k and 16k which doesn't > play so well with 4k drives. > ____________________________________________________________ > > > I started thinking about the choices I have for upgrading my running > 8.3 systems. > > I'm aware about of the procedure with freebsd-upgrade and rebuilding > all ports according to man portmaster. > > > Would you just do the upgrade or would you consider reinstalling? > > Would it be beneficial to make a fresh installation? let me phrase it this way: I upgrade always via source but I am prepared to hit a wall between. The number of walls are very low meanwhile. The advantage of a normal upgrade via sources are so many that I always risk it. But I make sure that I have the option of re-installation at hand. Erich _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
