Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:27:42 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Jay Chandler <chandler.lists@chapman.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Disk Space Requirements Message-ID: <20070127042742.GA61015@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <45BAAD80.4080907@chapman.edu> References: <45BAAD80.4080907@chapman.edu>
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In the last episode (Jan 26), Jay Chandler said: > I've got a VPS running FreeBSD 6.1 p5. > > I'd like to upgrade it to 6.2 if possible, or at least 6.1 p11. > > I've got four gigs of disk allocated to the box. Is this enough > space to rebuild the OS from source within? You need less than 500MB of space for /usr/obj. I recently upgraded a system with almost-full drives by mounting a 1GB flash drive on /usr/obj, and it didn't get over half full. If you don't already have a checked-out /usr/src tree, that'll require another 500MB. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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