Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 11:31:41 +0200 From: "Christian Zachariasen" <chrizach@gmail.com> To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?=" <kyrreny@broadpark.no>, "FreeBSD Mailing Lists" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can I Reinstall FreeBSD Over SSH? Message-ID: <4a89d1190805250231u1a0277dsbecc156861f8e218@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <fc109495dc3.4839348d@broadpark.no> References: <fc109495dc3.4839348d@broadpark.no>
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On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:42 AM, "Kyrre Nyg=E5rd" <kyrreny@broadpark.no> wrote: > My server is getting kinda messy, but my ISP charges too much for a > reinstall. Can I do this myself over SSH? Or perhaps there are ways to ma= ke > ones system as clean as a fresh install? Thanks. > > Much obliged, > Kyrre > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > (sorry, forgot to send this to the list as well) You have a server at an ISP? I'd say you'll need physical access to do an actual reinstall, unless they're using some kind of virtualization and you have access to that. But how is the server getting "messy"? In most cases you can just remove th= e software you're not using, and reclaim disk space that way. Also make sure any unneeded services are removed from /etc/rc.conf. To be honest, though - I've never felt the need to reinstall FreeBSD unless I was doing a major update as well (5 -> 6 for example). Christian Zachariasen
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