Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:16:30 +1100 From: "richard" <richard@another.com.au> To: "'Lowell Gilbert'" <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>, "'Jez Hancock'" <jez.hancock@munk.nu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full Message-ID: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAYzSznVi3fkWJYCR3viDFqMKAAAAQAAAA11bInjCkxE%2BxA%2BNTBWgBCAEAAAAA@another.com.au> In-Reply-To: <44r7x3atla.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0086_01C3F077.80F7BE00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Migrating data will be problematic as there's lot of user cr*p and custom built web apps from generations of cowboy programmers, plus about 300 users and a couple of dozen virtual domains. As I'm really only after a stable implementation of a USB external drive (for backup) am I better off trying an upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9? Cheers, Richard -----Original Message----- From: lowell@be-well.no-ip.com [mailto:lowell@be-well.no-ip.com] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2004 1:38 AM To: Jez Hancock Cc: Richard Beyer; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu> writes: > 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 Yes, more space is used in the root filesystem for 5.x. [For several different reasons...] > 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. That's definitely the way to go if possible; there are a number of advantagious new features that will be difficult to take advantage of otherwise. ------=_NextPart_000_0086_01C3F077.80F7BE00--
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