From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 22 23:50:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F6C37B401 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:50:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (fastmail.fm [209.61.183.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ABFD43EA9 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:50:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richardshea@fastmail.fm) Received: from server5.fastmail.fm (server5.internal [10.202.2.136]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F4BC6DAC0; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 01:50:47 -0600 (CST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=server5.fastmail.fm) by fastmail.fm with SMTP; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 01:50:46 -0600 Received: by server5.fastmail.fm (Postfix, from userid 99) id 3A5CF648C32; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 01:50:36 -0600 (CST) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.6; T1.001; A1.51; B2.12; Q2.03) From: "Richard Shea" To: "Jonathan Chen" Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:50:36 +1300 X-Epoch: 1038037846 X-Sasl-enc: b8VpXNyyRbb50mT55dG9lw Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: cvsupit - file system 105% - what have I done ? Message-Id: <20021123075036.3A5CF648C32@server5.fastmail.fm> 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 On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:01:20 +1300, "Jonathan Chen" said: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 05:38:26PM +1300, Richard Shea wrote: > Hi - Thanks for your reply ... > [...] > > Well I answered a few questions, pressed the button and the process > > commenced 'checking out' hundreds of files. I thought this was a bit > > suprising given I thought the whole point of CVS was to only pull those > > files which had changed - it just seemed to be pulling everying ! Anyway > > I had to CTRL-C it after a while as the file system had gone to 105%. > > Well, if you're moving from 4.4 to 4.7, there will be *quite* a lot of > files which will have changed. > I didn't really want to go all the way to 4.7 in one go I think if i change my cvsupfile so that it reads *default tag=RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE that will be what I want ... [SNIP] > cvsup installs directly into /usr/{src|ports|doc}. Your sources are > probably in an indeterminate state. However, if you rerun cvsup, it will > fix itself up. > good [SNIP] > If you intend on just upgrading your system sources, you don't need > ports-all and doc-all. src-all is approx 298M and the ports-all is > about 162M. Dunno about doc-all. Removing the ports-all and doc-all > will probably just squeeze your update in. I'm unsure whether you'll > have enough space to recompile your system though... > Even the 162M presents a problem and I was wondering if there some way I could suck the sources onto a different file system which has more space than /usr and get CVSUP to compile them from there ? regards richard shea. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Cuba Group PO Box 1864 Wellington New Zealand PH +64 4 496 5205 MO +64 21 296 6839 FX +64 4 496 5209 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message