From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 29 17:13:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from avarice.riverstyx.net (hq-port-97.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 987A415384 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:13:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from avarice (unknown@avarice [207.23.37.97]) by avarice.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA22037; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:10:37 -0700 Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:10:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Tani Hosokawa To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Glenn Campbell , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading to 3.2 In-Reply-To: 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 Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Kris Kennaway 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 :-). Instead of actually upgrading your entire system just to fix one niggling problem, why not just try a new FTP server? You might have better luck with, say, ProFTPD... upgrading seems like overkill IMHO. --- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message