Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 14:14:26 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Kyrre Nygard <kyrreny@broadpark.no> Cc: David Stanford <dthomas53@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: makeworld FAILURE on 5.4-STABLE Message-ID: <20060517181426.GA20577@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060517192318.021f3428@broadpark.no> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060512183937.02190800@broadpark.no> <200605160412.37036.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060516122905.02251e08@broadpark.no> <200605160655.06955.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060517120703.021ea638@broadpark.no> <f2c91f770605170329y3e6ab2f2nf5aab9b1971484e3@mail.gmail.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060517192318.021f3428@broadpark.no>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 07:25:50PM +0200, Kyrre Nygard wrote: > At 12:29 17.05.2006, David Stanford wrote: > > >Maybe I'm confused as to what you're looking to do. If you're looking to > >copy data from (or all of) /home to /var, it obviously won't be able to > >hold > >anymore than 248MB; and it seems like you have much more data than that. > > > >And avoiding the /usr slice won't help with upgrading as you will need to > >reinstall a new /usr slice anyway using the 6.1-RELEASE disc. Much of the > >system is located in /usr... > > > >If you have more than 248MB worth of data you need to save, and upgrading > >is > >absolutely necessary, I would suggest just ponying up the $40.00 and > >getting > >an external hard drive to back up the data. Then do a fresh install. > > I don't know where /var got into the picture, but what I'm trying to do is > to > reinstall FreeBSD while keeping /usr/home/awad on ad4s1f intact. All files > and folders except /usr/home/awad I will have deleted manually. > > I wonder if this is possible ... Just do an upgrade install from sysinstall, this has been supported for many years. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEa2gCWry0BWjoQKURAuJLAJwJzfncKiAeEG0EjRBPKPVk1JLw4wCgnaoO mIN4SFJzIWdBG1hgtz8sGe0= =aSn0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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