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Date:      Wed, 3 Oct 2001 22:02:41 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        "James J." <faze@soon.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: what do you think ?
Message-ID:  <20011003220241.D559@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011003115252.1507.qmail@mail.com>; from faze@soon.com on Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 07:52:52PM %2B0800
References:  <20011003115252.1507.qmail@mail.com>

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On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 07:52:52PM +0800, James J. wrote:
>    im upgradeing from 4.0 -> 4.4 but my / partition isnt big
> enough and the cd update doesnt delete the old files i was thinking,
> its a long shot but it might work if i rm -rf /etc then rm -rf
> /dist then rm -rf /bin (which then will be the last command i can
> execute) then i force reboot with the cd and the upgrade replaces
> the files that i deleted, in theory wouldnt that work ?

Bad ideas...

Remove all unnecessary files from / (a la kernel.GENERIC and kernel.old)
Remove /modules.old
Remove all unncessary files from /root (hint: there don't have to be any there)

/dist should be empty anyway.

If this isn't enough yet, don't read any further: remove /bin,
/sbin, but keep in mind that this is unreversable. Don't do this,
it's unreversable.

Don't throw out /etc, since it contains information about your system.
Don't throw out /etc, since it contains information about your system.
Don't throw out /etc, since it contains information about your system.

Edwin
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