> I wonder if FreeBSD would benefit from some documentation or packaging to make this more of a covered area? FreBSD also supports in-place upgrades for major

> I wonder if FreeBSD would benefit from some documentation or packaging to make this more of a covered area? FreBSD also supports in-place upgrades for major version numbers: * https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/ https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/ * https://www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/freebsd-13-released-how-to-update-upgrade-freebsd-12-to-13/ https://www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/freebsd-13-released-ho... There could be policy reasons why someone may decent not to do it: if you have a large fleet of cattle machines it may be easier to just redeploy from scratch. Home(lab) users and pet machines at companies may do otherwise.