From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 17 21:55:00 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48DCB1065673 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:55:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ricardo.meb.jesus@gmail.com) Received: from gate.criticalsoftware.com (gate.criticalsoftware.com [212.13.37.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C34C88FC19 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:54:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ricardo.meb.jesus@gmail.com) Received: from [192.168.2.100] (cm-84-91-76-82.netvisao.pt [84.91.76.82]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gate.criticalsoftware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6528E849B; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:54:57 +0000 (WET) Message-ID: <49497531.3010500@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:54:57 +0000 From: Ricardo Jesus User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mel References: <6c51dbb10812140628t3531c703r85f691d228dfd8e3@mail.gmail.com> <200812170748.58764.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <200812170748.58764.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, FuLLBLaSTstorm Subject: Re: freebsd-update killed my /var X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ricardo.m.jesus@criticalsoftware.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:55:00 -0000 Mel wrote: > On Sunday 14 December 2008 15:28:16 FuLLBLaSTstorm wrote: >> Hey all, >> Recently I've run freebsd-update on my desktop machine, but it failed >> saying that it cannot save its files anymore to /var because the >> filesystem is full. now df shows something like this: >> # df >> /dev/ad0s1d 253678 250630 -17248 107% /var > > If this is what I think it is, a 256k /var, then I'm not surprised. Handbook, > online tutorials all recommend at least 1G for /var ever since the 4.x days. > > I use 5G, but I save logs for a year. I faced the same problem last week while trying to update to 7.1-RC1 on a disk with 197MB /var. Here's how I fixed the problem: # freebsd-update -d /path/to/big/path/directory/ upgrade -r 7.1-RC1 # freebsd-update -d /path/to/big/path/directory/ install Simply use freebsd-update's -d option. man freebsd-update for more info.