From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 10 13:18:50 2004 Return-Path: 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 5490E16A4CE for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:18:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from enterprise.another.com.au (dsl-210-15-193-5.TAS.netspace.net.au [210.15.193.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3291143D1D for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:18:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richard@another.com.au) Received: from shadow (CPE-144-137-30-210.vic.bigpond.net.au [144.137.30.210]) i1ALGUAL082245; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:18:38 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from richard@another.com.au) From: "richard" To: "'Lowell Gilbert'" , "'Jez Hancock'" Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:16:30 +1100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0086_01C3F077.80F7BE00" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 In-Reply-To: <44r7x3atla.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: 000000006334B39D58B77E4589602477BE20C5A844362B00 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 'clamd / ClamAV version 0.65', clamav-milter version '0.60p' X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=4.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FVGT_TRIPWIRE_OC,J_CHICKENPOX_21,TW_OC autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on mail.another.com.au X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:18:50 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0086_01C3F077.80F7BE00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Migrating data will be problematic as there's lot of user cr*p and custom built web apps from generations of cowboy programmers, plus about 300 users and a couple of dozen virtual domains. As I'm really only after a stable implementation of a USB external drive (for backup) am I better off trying an upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9? Cheers, Richard -----Original Message----- From: lowell@be-well.no-ip.com [mailto:lowell@be-well.no-ip.com] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2004 1:38 AM To: Jez Hancock Cc: Richard Beyer; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full Jez Hancock writes: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:10:05PM +1100, Richard Beyer wrote: > > Thanks Jez, > > > > Here's my df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/ad0s1a 126M 106M 9.4M 92% / > > /dev/ad0s1f 252M 9.6M 222M 4% /tmp > > /dev/ad0s1g 72G 2.7G 64G 4% /usr > > /dev/ad0s1e 252M 51M 181M 22% /var > > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc > > > > > > It's an 80Gig HDD and I was using the sysinstall | upgrade | all | include > > ports > > Seems odd that so much space is taken up by / - perhaps under 5.x more > space is required? I really do need to install 5.x at some point ... :P Yes, more space is used in the root filesystem for 5.x. [For several different reasons...] > Can you not do a backup of your data and start over with a fresh install > of 5.2? You have stacks of room on the hdd spare, so presumably doing > this wouldn't be too problematic. That's definitely the way to go if possible; there are a number of advantagious new features that will be difficult to take advantage of otherwise. ------=_NextPart_000_0086_01C3F077.80F7BE00--