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Date:      Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:03:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Simon Lindgren <lindgren@sn.no>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: upgrading to 2.2.2-REL
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970825220211.3179F-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199708161603.SAA10971@sinsen.sn.no>

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On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Simon Lindgren wrote:

> 
> Going from 2.1.6 to 2.2.2 gives me a big headache. Upgrading
> using friendly instructions (courtesy Doug White - thanks) puts
> a lot of files in my /mnt... in fact it recreates the entire
> /usr in /mnt - where there's of course not enough room for it.

Did you go through the disklabel editor and told it what was your /, /var,
and /usr partitions?  You have to tell it all of them, telling it to MOUNT
them and not to NEWFS them.  Otherwise, it all ends up in / and eventually
fills up.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail    | Death to Cyberpromo




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