From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 3 5: 2:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D469A37B403 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 05:02:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id A691F2B709; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 14:02:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 83795294; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 22:02:41 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 22:02:41 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: "James J." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what do you think ? Message-ID: <20011003220241.D559@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , "James J." , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011003115252.1507.qmail@mail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011003115252.1507.qmail@mail.com>; from faze@soon.com on Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 07:52:52PM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message