Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:16:38 -0400 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, fbsd2@yahoo.com Subject: Re: 80 Mb / enough for 7.x? OK to delete /stand/ and /modules/ ? Message-ID: <200806121416.46040.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <372128.56919.qm@web51502.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <372128.56919.qm@web51502.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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--nextPart2364415.1Zd2VII2kH Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 12 June 2008, fbsd2 wrote: > Greetings list, > > Given recent EOL announcements, I'm trying to upgrade an ancient > machine from 5.5 to 7. It has 80 Mb total in the root partition, > /home/, /var/, /usr/, and /tmp/ on other partitions, and NFS mounts > /usr/src, /usr/obj, and /usr/ports from a slightly newer/faster > box. I've seen > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/relnotes.html and > http://marc.info/?l=3Dfreebsd-stable&m=3D121278826119286&w=3D2 > > which seem to suggest that even with INSTALL_NODEBUG during > buildkernel, 7 might not fit in an 80 Mb /. Must I partition a new > disk to give more space to /, or can I find more space by deleting > /stand/, /modules/, and possibly /rescue/ to shoehorn a custom 7.x > kernel in the available space? TIA It should fit, though you may have issues with kernel.old pushing you=20 over the limit. =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart2364415.1Zd2VII2kH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkhRaAYACgkQxqA5ziudZT20vQCgvLhfMLfl/aZcrnor3yvpbIGG zdIAoJ04L10aaBu+ibgb8p01tm7X0pE8 =OE1H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2364415.1Zd2VII2kH--
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