From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 27 04:28:08 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750C816A400 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 04:28:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28EE813C484 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 04:28:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.6/8.13.8) id l0R4Rgun067682; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:27:42 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:27:42 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Jay Chandler Message-ID: <20070127042742.GA61015@dan.emsphone.com> References: <45BAAD80.4080907@chapman.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45BAAD80.4080907@chapman.edu> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Disk Space Requirements X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 04:28:08 -0000 In the last episode (Jan 26), Jay Chandler said: > I've got a VPS running FreeBSD 6.1 p5. > > I'd like to upgrade it to 6.2 if possible, or at least 6.1 p11. > > I've got four gigs of disk allocated to the box. Is this enough > space to rebuild the OS from source within? You need less than 500MB of space for /usr/obj. I recently upgraded a system with almost-full drives by mounting a 1GB flash drive on /usr/obj, and it didn't get over half full. If you don't already have a checked-out /usr/src tree, that'll require another 500MB. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com