On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Steven R. Gerber <[email protected]> wrote: > The partitions/mounts problem is far more disconcerting. What if I need > to save data to a striped array to do the migration? > Recreating/resetting those parameters is dangerous. How can I create > and use a site script to preserve them through install? Is it possible > to do an install without walloping the existing filesystem(s)? (Deleting > files is OK.)
The installer will not overwrite an existing disklabel if you have one and will only newfs filesystems that have mount points. This is easy to screw up if you aren't careful, but it's certainly possible to do a clean install and keep some filesystems from before.
