Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 10:56:24 -1000 From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> To: Gavin Spomer <spomerg@cwu.EDU> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.2-STABLE => 7.0-STABLE Upgrade root partition more full Message-ID: <20080606205623.GA17905@lava.net> In-Reply-To: <4849218F0200009000019B78@hermes.cwu.edu> References: <4849218F0200009000019B78@hermes.cwu.edu>
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On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 11:37:51AM -0700, Gavin Spomer wrote:
> I successfully did my first FreeBSD upgrade yesterday after looking at the manual, and cross referencing with Googling and getting help from our network engineer here at CWU. Before the upgrade, running df showed:
>
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/da0s1a 507630 77662 389358 17% /
> devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev
> /dev/da0s1e 507630 588 466432 0% /tmp
> /dev/da0s1f 268217320 4866120 241893816 2% /usr
> /dev/da0s1d 4298926 162066 3792946 4% /var
>
> Now it shows:
>
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/da0s1a 507630 184834 282186 40% /
> devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev
> /dev/da0s1e 507630 426 466594 0% /tmp
> /dev/da0s1f 268217320 5514844 241245092 2% /usr
> /dev/da0s1d 4298926 187570 3767442 5% /var
>
> Notice the the increase in the root partition. Should I have made
> this partition bigger when I first installed? Is there any cleaning
> up I can do after version upgrades? I would've thought /usr would be
> the one that grew more, but then again my /usr partition is fairly
> sizeable. Does 7.0 just take up a lot more of the root partition than
> 6.2?
Yes, it just does. It should not keep expanding, though.
IMHO, you should still be fine as long as you've got /tmp, /usr/,
/var, and the home directories residing on other partitions. If you're
using /home under / for home directories, you might want to move it to
/usr/home and symlink /home to it.
-- Clifton
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