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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>
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On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 07:25:50PM +0200, Kyrre Nygard wrote:
> At 12:29 17.05.2006, David Stanford wrote:
>=20
> >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=
=20
> >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 upgradin=
g=20
> >is
> >absolutely necessary, I would suggest just ponying up the $40.00 and=20
> >getting
> >an external hard drive to back up the data. Then do a fresh install.
>=20
> I don't know where /var got into the picture, but what I'm trying to do i=
s=20
> to
> reinstall FreeBSD while keeping /usr/home/awad on ad4s1f intact. All files
> and folders except /usr/home/awad I will have deleted manually.
>=20
> I wonder if this is possible ...

Just do an upgrade install from sysinstall, this has been supported
for many years.

Kris

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