From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 22 00:15:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91D4616A41F for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:15:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brad@stop.mail-abuse.org) Received: from vhost109.his.com (vhost109.his.com [216.194.225.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EF9443D46 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:15:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brad@stop.mail-abuse.org) Received: from [10.0.1.210] (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by vhost109.his.com (8.12.11/8.12.3) with ESMTP id j8M0FCMf046014 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:15:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brad@stop.mail-abuse.org) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20050921235617.B0CEF5D07@ptavv.es.net> References: <20050921235617.B0CEF5D07@ptavv.es.net> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:14:54 +0200 To: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List From: Brad Knowles Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: Re: Advice sought on upgrading from 4.11-R to 5.4... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:15:15 -0000 At 4:56 PM -0700 2005-09-21, Kevin Oberman wrote: > Check in the CVS repository: > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/UPDATING?annotate=1.342.2.24&only_with_tag=RELENG_5_4 Thanks for the pointer! > One down side of an upgrade in-place is that you don't get the larger > root partition that is now default and you don't get UFS2 file systems > on your partitions. I almost never take the default installation options whenever I'm building a system. They almost always result in the root filesystem being laughably small, or whatever. In my case, I've got a 256MB root filesystem with 150MB free, so I think I'm okay there. I did get burned with /usr being too small, even at 2GB. With all the ports and stuff I've installed, I had to move /usr/local to a separate filesystem (which I already had), and put a symlink in place. As for UFS2, since I can't get this machine to boot off CD-ROM with the 5.x images (at least, not the ones I've tried in the past), I would like to keep the system in UFS1 anyway, just in case I need to reboot off the 4.x CD-ROMs and try to do some recovery things. -- Brad Knowles, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See for more info.