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From: dabay@BRL.MIL ("Dave M. Dabay", SGI|stay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  fx/disks/3.2 upgrade
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Date: 21 Dec 89 16:02:56 GMT
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It should not be necessary to reformat your disks before, load/reloading new releases,  however it is a good Idea to back things up just in caes..

But we have done numerous os upgrades without reformating and don't have any
unusual disk problems/errors......