Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:14:54 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> To: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Advice sought on upgrading from 4.11-R to 5.4... Message-ID: <p06200712bf57a71365a1@[10.0.1.210]> In-Reply-To: <20050921235617.B0CEF5D07@ptavv.es.net> References: <20050921235617.B0CEF5D07@ptavv.es.net>
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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, <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> "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 <http://www.sage.org/>; for more info.
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