From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Oct 24 08:00:52 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3B3FE43F17 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2017 08:00:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.117.100]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk", Issuer "infracaninophile.co.uk" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8AC4B7495E for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2017 08:00:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from leaf.local (unknown [88.202.132.43]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7DDFF1360 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2017 08:00:43 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: canceling freebsd-update To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <59EED17B.2080101@webtent.org> From: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 09:00:43 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <59EED17B.2080101@webtent.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 08:00:52 -0000 On 24/10/2017 06:36, Robert Fitzpatrick via freebsd-questions wrote: > I have a VM that needed more disk space. When I logged in to shutdown, I > see this is 10.1-RELEASE so I decided to update the machine. After which > I went ahead and initated an upgrade to 10.4 by running 'freebsd-update > -r 10.4-RELEASE upgrade'. As the machine was fetching, I realized the > /var drive does not have so much disk space. All merging went perfectly, > only a couple of files to manually merge and ended up with only a little > over 500MB free space (94% usage) on /var after. I decided not to commit > and free up some space first and did not issue the 'freebsd-update > install'. The system has been rebooted since I shutdown to grow the disk > of this VM, came back up as 10.1-RELEASE-p41 and I finished the disk > maintenance and now have plenty of space on /var. > > Now, should I run the install when ready or should I cancel that > previous upgrade and start over somehow? You can just carry on the freebsd-update process from where you left off. You've got the upgrade to 10.4-RELEASE sitting prepared in /var/db/freebsd-update and ready to go. Cheers, Matthew