From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 25 14:36:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E59437B999 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:35:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13HBSW-0004eU-00; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 21:37:48 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13HBSW-000IsY-00; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 21:37:48 +0100 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 21:37:48 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: carl Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrade space? Message-ID: <20000725213748.J28657@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <4.3.1.1.20000724172538.00b1bd00@pop3.concentric.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.1.20000724172538.00b1bd00@pop3.concentric.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG carl wrote: > i am currentlly runing 4.0 release and i would like to upgrade to 4 stable. > The only problem is that i have a 405 meg harddrive, 375 to / and 30 > swap...that leaves 50 megs free!!! i am not sure if thats enough. If you're talking about a source upgrade, that's not enough. I think you need about 500MB for /usr/src + /usr/obj. But it may be more, I'd use 1GB, which should be enough for a long time. > if it isnt, i could possibily plug in another hd with enough space and > download to it and install the other hd- would that work? thanks!!!! Of course... Unix has a single flat filespace, unlike the ugliness of separate drives letters in Windows, so most programs won't even know the source is on another disk. Just mount the new disk on /disk2 or something, and add appropriate symlinks from /usr/src -> /disk2/src, and likewise for /usr/obj. Then just cvsup the source to /usr/src (which points to /disk2/src now) using the instructions in the Handbook. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D FreeBSD Documentation Project / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message