In <https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=174702671731147&w=1>, I wrote: > I have an OpenBSD system for which /home isn't in /etc/fstab. [[...]] > Today (trying to upgrade from 7.6-stable/amd64 to 7.7/amd64) I discovered > that this breaks sysupgrade (and autoinstall):
In <https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=174702898231996&w=1>, Janne Johansson replied > sysupgrade -b ? Oh. I think I've misunderand the semantics of sysupgrade and /bsd.upgrade. I had thought that the upgrade would (like an interactive install) do a newfs on each partition with a mount point specified in disklabel(8) before installing the new sets. [On OpenBSD systems which have /home in /etc/fstab, I'm used to omitting /home when specifying mount points in the interactive installer so as to prevent /home from being wiped this way.] Hence, I had assumed that sysupgrade -b had an implicit restriction "don't specify a directory in any file system that has a mount point specified in disklabel(8)". But now that I think of it, it seems more likely that I'm wrong about whether a sysupgrade does all those newfs operations. Is there a Fine Manual I should have read which would have told me more explicitly what filesystems are/aren't preserved by sysupgrade? Thanks, ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -color to reply]" <dr.j.thornb...@gmail-pink.com> (he/him; on the west coast of Canada) "There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -- anon
