Re: [K12OSN] System downgrade - caveats?

[Vern Ceder <vceder canterburyschool org>]

By file system layout, do you mean the partitions and mount points, or 
do you mean the actual directory structure?

If it's the former, then fstab should be enough, unless you have 
something that accesses the partitions directly, like software RAID. I 
would check by using a command like "grep -r /dev/hd /etc" to find any 
references to partitions in files in /etc. Use /dev/sd if you have scsi 
drives.

Then, of course, reboot the restored system while holding your breath 
and muttering every magic word you know. :-)

Vern

Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
> Dear Folks,
> 	for the time being I got just one vote on what to do. Verne, who
> is obviously very smart, because he thinks the way i do, insists i should
> go back to true-and-tried V3.1.2. This is going to be my weekend project.
> I am going to blow away the system, and then restore from bakup, with one
> important "gotcha!" - the file system layout has changed and will *not* be
> the same as on the backup.
>
> 	Here is the $64,000.00 question: Is it enough to overwrite
> /ets/fstab on backup with the new file, or is there something else I have
> to really worry about?
>
> 	tia, julius
>
>
>
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