Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 23:20:58 -0700 From: James Long <list@museum.rain.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com> Subject: Re: Upgrading and Disk Space. Message-ID: <20060521062058.GB11454@ns.museum.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20060520182703.2E74916A445@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20060520182703.2E74916A445@hub.freebsd.org>
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> Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 08:34:18 -0400 > From: "Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com> > Subject: Upgrading and Disk Space. > To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Message-ID: <000701c67c09$ba3938e0$6501a8c0@grant> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Hi all, > > I am about to upgrade a 6.0 machine to 6.1R. > > I am running a little tight on space on the3 /usr part. I was wondering what > can be safely removed from /usr befor starting the upgrade. > > The idea is to try NOT to fill up the filesystem and crap out duing the > upgrade. > > Any feedback will be appreciated. > > -Grant You don't say specifically, but I presume you're planning a source upgrade (make buildworld, et al). You have oodles of space on /var, I'd suggest trying: cd /usr mv src /var && ln -s /var/src src mv obj /var && ln -s /var/obj obj That should give you plenty of room to cvsup and compile the upgrade.
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