Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:19:44 +0000 From: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu> To: Richard Beyer <richard@another.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full Message-ID: <20040210091944.GD78073@users.munk.nu> In-Reply-To: <20040210201000.K78751@enterprise.another.com.au> References: <20040210123328.E75523@enterprise.another.com.au> <20040210073154.GB75928@users.munk.nu> <20040210201000.K78751@enterprise.another.com.au>
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Hi Richard, On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:10:05PM +1100, Richard Beyer wrote: > Thanks Jez, > > Here's my df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 126M 106M 9.4M 92% / > /dev/ad0s1f 252M 9.6M 222M 4% /tmp > /dev/ad0s1g 72G 2.7G 64G 4% /usr > /dev/ad0s1e 252M 51M 181M 22% /var > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc > > > It's an 80Gig HDD and I was using the sysinstall | upgrade | all | include > ports Seems odd that so much space is taken up by / - perhaps under 5.x more space is required? I really do need to install 5.x at some point ... :P Is there no chance you can perform a standard install from scratch? I had contemplated moving from 4.8 to 5.x, but am seriously putting it off because I imagine *upgrading* from 4.x to 5.x isn't too straight-forward - perhaps others could shed light on whether it's recommended to attempt it or not? Can you not do a backup of your data and start over with a fresh install of 5.2? You have stacks of room on the hdd spare, so presumably doing this wouldn't be too problematic. > > Cheers, > Richard > > > On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Jez Hancock wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:36:27PM +1100, Richard Beyer wrote: > > > I tried doing an upgrade from 4.8 to 5.2, and part way through I got a > > > filesystem full error (about 3 in a row actually) as each partion filled > > > up. (No panic - doing it off a mirror). > > > > > > My question is - obviously the CDROM sysinstall isn't going to work for me > > > - what now? > > Get a bigger hard drive? :P > > > > More details might help - how big is the disk drive you're installing > > to? How big are the partitions created in the install process? What > > type of installation are you attempting - full/minimal/etc ? > > > > The minimal installation takes up very little room - around 3-400MB iirc > > which should be small enough to fit on any hdd manufactured in the last > > 5 years or so. > > > > > > -- > > Jez Hancock > > - System Administrator / PHP Developer > > > > http://munk.nu/ > > http://jez.hancock-family.com/ - Another FreeBSD Diary > > http://ipfwstats.sf.net/ - ipfw peruser traffic logging > > -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ http://jez.hancock-family.com/ - Another FreeBSD Diary http://ipfwstats.sf.net/ - ipfw peruser traffic logging
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