Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:54:57 +0000 From: Ricardo Jesus <ricardo.meb.jesus@gmail.com> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, FuLLBLaSTstorm <fullblaststorm@gmail.com> Subject: Re: freebsd-update killed my /var Message-ID: <49497531.3010500@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200812170748.58764.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <6c51dbb10812140628t3531c703r85f691d228dfd8e3@mail.gmail.com> <200812170748.58764.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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Mel wrote: > On Sunday 14 December 2008 15:28:16 FuLLBLaSTstorm wrote: >> Hey all, >> Recently I've run freebsd-update on my desktop machine, but it failed >> saying that it cannot save its files anymore to /var because the >> filesystem is full. now df shows something like this: >> # df >> /dev/ad0s1d 253678 250630 -17248 107% /var > > If this is what I think it is, a 256k /var, then I'm not surprised. Handbook, > online tutorials all recommend at least 1G for /var ever since the 4.x days. > > I use 5G, but I save logs for a year. I faced the same problem last week while trying to update to 7.1-RC1 on a disk with 197MB /var. Here's how I fixed the problem: # freebsd-update -d /path/to/big/path/directory/ upgrade -r 7.1-RC1 # freebsd-update -d /path/to/big/path/directory/ install Simply use freebsd-update's -d option. man freebsd-update for more info.
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