From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 29 17:11:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F016C151C7 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:11:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id JAA11585; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 09:41:21 +0930 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA28466; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 09:41:20 +0930 Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 09:41:19 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: Glenn Campbell Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 3.2 In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990629145704.008959b0@mail.cgc.ns.ca> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Glenn Campbell wrote: > In addressing my ftpchroot problem I was thinking of upgrading to 3.2. Will > I have to backup all of my filesystems for a fresh new fs wipe and create > or can I preserve the existing contents easily and upgrade? Barring act of god, you can upgrade your system 'online' without needing to wipe partitions. It is always smart to back up before doing major upgrades, of course, but thousands of people have done exactly this without incident (some of us developers upgrade our systems almost daily :-). Kris ----- "Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." -- Unknown To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message