From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 23 12:02:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D481116A422 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:02:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from asmtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk (asmtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4FCB43D46 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:02:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [80.192.2.16] (helo=[192.168.0.2]) by asmtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FMOWO-0002O2-BB; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:02:32 +0000 Message-ID: <44228E57.5000301@dial.pipex.com> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:02:31 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060305 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grant Peel References: <000701c64e12$c5666dc0$6501a8c0@GRANT> In-Reply-To: <000701c64e12$c5666dc0$6501a8c0@GRANT> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Continuing Server Crash Saga! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:02:46 -0000 Grant Peel wrote: > I am hoping someone here will tell me upgrading from 6.0 to 6.1 would > be a trivial task, posing minimal danger, and perhaps point me to a > decent tutorial or how to ... Upgrading within a major release, while not trivial, is really not hard either as long as *you follow the instructions*. The handbook has the howto. However, I would still take backups of the system directories before upgrading (/ /usr probably /var). The shortened version can be found in /usr/src/UPDATING. --Alex PS Do you really *need* quotas? They won't do much for your performance.