From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 25 1:13:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C64B137B401 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 01:13:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from user-2ivebjp.dialup.mindspring.com ([165.247.46.121] helo=bezerker) by robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15wfe9-0003ii-00; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 01:13:49 -0700 Message-ID: <003d01c15d2d$34ae8a90$0101a8c0@bezerker> From: "Bezerker" To: "Joshua Holland" Cc: References: <003701c15bf5$a31593e0$6501a8c0@sioux><3BD5C13A.794D4BB5@owt.com> Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4,4-RELEASE Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 04:15:22 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 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 What you may want to do is mount /usr/obj or /var/obj wherever it builds (isnt it /usr/obj and /usr/src by default? oh well) as a memory file system If you got enuff swap, shudnt be ap rob, theres a document on bsdpro.com that has something to do with that, i wrote an addendum to it about size on it, check it out (bloody fast too if yer not swapping) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Holland" To: "Kent Stewart" Cc: "Jonathan M. Slivko" ; Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 4:08 AM Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4,4-RELEASE > I CVSup'd into /var/src, /var/ports OK. > 'make buildworld', however, filled up my / partition (500MB) can I > link /usr/obj to /var/obj without any problems, and redo 'make > buildworld'? I would have to start over and repartition my drive to > do below, which I'm trying to avoid. > > >"Jonathan M. Slivko" wrote: > >> > >> It would put everything in /usr/src. -- Jonathan > > > >However, you can do something like this > > > >/dev/ad0s2g 11163302 1168287 9101951 11% /usr > >/dev/ad4s2e 2576739 318866 2051734 13% /usr/obj > >/dev/ad6s3e 1488607 316904 1052615 23% /usr/src > > > >They are mounted in fstab this way. > > > >Kent > > > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> Jonathan Slivko - 4EverMail.COM - www.4evermail.com > >> Web Hosting - Web Desgin - UNIX Shell Accounts > >> jslivko@4EverMail.com - Phone: (212) 663-1109 > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Joshua Holland > >> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 3:04 PM > >> To: Jonathan M. Slivko > >> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >> Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4,4-RELEASE > >> > >> I want to CVSup a different box for someone. It is set up with a > >> 500MB / partition and a 27GB /var partition and FreeBSD 4.3. Will > >> CVS put all the src's and stuff in/usr? Can I change the sup file to > >> reflect a different destination, or should I sym link /usr to > >> /var/usr? I don't and / to fill up. > >> > >> Josh. > >> > >> > > Is that 1 GB beyond what I have on my drive? > >> >> > >> >> >You can delete all of /usr/obj *before* you cvsup, not after. Also, > >> leave > >> >> >the ports collection alone. The whole upgrade should take you less > >> than > >> >1GB, > >> >> >assuming you have the latest 4.3 source. -- Jonathan > >> >> > > >> >> >----- Original Message ----- > >> >> >From: "Joshua Holland" > >> >> >To: > >> >> >Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 3:45 PM > >> >> >Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4,4-RELEASE > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> >> > >> >> >> Do I need lots of hard drive space? Can I delete stuff before > >> >> >> running CVSup (like the existing ports collection, after > >> installing > >> > > >> CVSup)? > >> > >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >> > >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > >-- > >Kent Stewart > >Richland, WA > > > >mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com > >http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html > >FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message