[OpenIndiana-discuss] preserve configuration files on image-update - how?

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On Jan 22, 2013, at 5:53 AM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:

> Hi Jon,
> 
>> did you know that with the beadm command you can mount a previous BE,
>> as a slice on the disk and access the files from that?  it'd save you
>> copying the files to another device.
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out. Actually I was aware of that but then fell back to old Linux habits when it came to it. *sigh*;-)
> 
> Cheers
> Stefan
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Well, I for one am glad you forgot, because I also knew this, but I forgot, too.  This friendly little reminder brought great joy to my heart tonight, because it should save me quite a bit of work tomorrow.

I have to look up how to do it, but it should be real helpful.

Caio.

fp