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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Updating with 2.1.5
Date: 26 Aug 1996 07:06:05 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote:

> Of course, if you've installing on top of 2.0.5, the filesystem format
> has changed, so this is a bit dangerous !

Huh?

The filesystem format hasn't been changed since FreeBSD 2.0, only the
jump from FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 to 2.0 (i.e. to the 4.4BSD-Lite codebase)
caused some changes.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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