From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 25 22:03:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA07830 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:03:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line10.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA07823 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:03:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA03211; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:03:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:03:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Simon Lindgren cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading to 2.2.2-REL In-Reply-To: <199708161603.SAA10971@sinsen.sn.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Simon Lindgren wrote: > > Going from 2.1.6 to 2.2.2 gives me a big headache. Upgrading > using friendly instructions (courtesy Doug White - thanks) puts > a lot of files in my /mnt... in fact it recreates the entire > /usr in /mnt - where there's of course not enough room for it. Did you go through the disklabel editor and told it what was your /, /var, and /usr partitions? You have to tell it all of them, telling it to MOUNT them and not to NEWFS them. Otherwise, it all ends up in / and eventually fills up. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo