Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 22:15:04 +1300 From: "Richard Shea" <richardshea@fastmail.fm> To: "Jonathan Chen" <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvsupit - file system 105% - what have I done ? Message-ID: <20021123091504.DEA8C1BA17B@server5.fastmail.fm>
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On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 21:14:49 +1300, "Jonathan Chen" <jonc@chen.org.nz> said: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 08:50:36PM +1300, Richard Shea wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:01:20 +1300, "Jonathan Chen" <jonc@chen.org.nz> > > said: > > [...] > > > 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 ? > > My suggestion would be for you symlink /usr/src and /usr/obj to the > bigger filesystem and then run your cvsup. > Thanks for the tip - I've done that and the file are streaming in right now - keeping my fingers crossed ! regards richard ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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
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