Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 19:25:50 +0200 From: Kyrre Nygard <kyrreny@broadpark.no> To: David Stanford <dthomas53@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: makeworld FAILURE on 5.4-STABLE Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20060517192318.021f3428@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <f2c91f770605170329y3e6ab2f2nf5aab9b1971484e3@mail.gmail.co m> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060512183937.02190800@broadpark.no> <200605160412.37036.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060516122905.02251e08@broadpark.no> <200605160655.06955.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060517120703.021ea638@broadpark.no> <f2c91f770605170329y3e6ab2f2nf5aab9b1971484e3@mail.gmail.com>
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At 12:29 17.05.2006, David Stanford wrote: >Maybe I'm confused as to what you're looking to do. If you're looking to >copy data from (or all of) /home to /var, it obviously won't be able to hold >anymore than 248MB; and it seems like you have much more data than that. > >And avoiding the /usr slice won't help with upgrading as you will need to >reinstall a new /usr slice anyway using the 6.1-RELEASE disc. Much of the >system is located in /usr... > >If you have more than 248MB worth of data you need to save, and upgrading is >absolutely necessary, I would suggest just ponying up the $40.00 and getting >an external hard drive to back up the data. Then do a fresh install. I don't know where /var got into the picture, but what I'm trying to do is to reinstall FreeBSD while keeping /usr/home/awad on ad4s1f intact. All files and folders except /usr/home/awad I will have deleted manually. I wonder if this is possible ... Thanks, Kyrre
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