Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 23:16:23 PDT From: "Albert Chen" <chen6178@hotmail.com> To: jmutter@netwalk.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much size should I prepare If I upgrade from 3.1 source? Message-ID: <19990508061623.1070.qmail@hotmail.com>
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James A. Mutter wrote: >Wow. It looks like you're running out of space on /usr. You're going >to need more for the 3.X distro, specifically, you'll need more space >to hold the a.out libs, these are used for backwards compatability >with a.out binaries. If you've got an extra HDD drive laying around >or can afford to buy a new larger drive you'll be in good shape. >Here's what I've got: > >bash-2.02$ df >Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >/dev/wd1s1a 49583 20902 24715 46% / >mfs:27 178591 13 164291 0% /tmp >/dev/wd1s1g 2934750 1059674 1640296 39% /usr >/dev/wd1s1f 34687 9161 22752 29% /var >/dev/wd0s1 1635248 1221216 414032 75% /win98 >/dev/wd0s2 859636 392552 467084 46% /win98_1 >procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc >bash-2.02$ > >I've got a fairly average configuration here. (binaries, source, X, >gnome) > >One final note. If it's not too impractical you may want to consider >a clean installation of 3.X. I tried the upgrade (I'll admit this was >quite some time ago) and it didn't go smoothly at all. Really? don't scares me!! Well, I think I'd better buy a clean disk as you suggest. >I reinstalled 3.X onto a clean disk and everythings been fine since. Regards, Albert. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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