Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:54:40 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= <rene@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd-update not checking disk space? Message-ID: <4EA66B40.8060700@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CADL2u4gubpQ0QXpp2=HN7c2W-4O4S%2Be%2B_abQthz5oj_%2BgDJ3ig@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADL2u4gubpQ0QXpp2=HN7c2W-4O4S%2Be%2B_abQthz5oj_%2BgDJ3ig@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/25/11 00:52, René Ladan wrote: > I tried to upgrade a server at work from 8.2-RELEASE-i386 to 9.0-RC1-i386 > using freebsd-update.When running 'freebsd-update install' to install the new > kernel, but that failed because there was insufficient disk space. This resulted > in freebsd-update thinking everything is ok but left the kernel unbootable. Yes, this is a known issue in freebsd-update -- it needs to be much smarter about detecting and handling errors. Unfortunately I haven't had time to deal with this (and it's a lot of work). -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoidhelp
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