Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 09:41:19 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Glenn Campbell <glenn@cgc.ns.ca> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 3.2 Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9906300939350.17275-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990629145704.008959b0@mail.cgc.ns.ca>
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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
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