I was being sarcastic about the rm -rf /* Sorry for any confusion caused. I agree with you. newfs is faster. I installed a new drive and I'm installing everything there. The old drive is being used as the backup and as I install packages I'm moving configuration and data files over to the new system.
Again, thanks to all! On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Ondřej Majerech <oxyd.o...@gmail.com>wrote: > 2011/4/7 Attos <attos.ja...@gmail.com>: > > I think so. > > I'll do back up and start from scratch. Then I'll be sure I have just > what I > > need. > > Switching to single user mode, tar, and as Konstantin wrote: rm -rf /* > > > > If you do want to go the wipe-all-and-start-from-scratch route, doing > newfs /dev/<your slice> might be a better option. 1) It's faster than > rm -rf /; 2) if you have $HOME on a separate slice, you can avoid > wiping that out by simply not wiping its slice. > > Ondra > -- Attos Janus _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
