Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:10:08 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: jaymax <jaymax36@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading 6.0 to 6.x... without /var Message-ID: <20090911231008.87115e75.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <25408257.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <25391151.post@talk.nabble.com> <20090911223648.84368cfe.freebsd@edvax.de> <25408257.post@talk.nabble.com>
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On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:00:20 -0700 (PDT), jaymax <jaymax36@gmail.com> wrote: > You are correct my typos, they are > ad0s1e and ad0s1f for /tmp and /usr respectively; /var is replaced by soft > link > ln -s /usr/var /var So the problem is /usr cannot be mounted. First of all, just try it manually, as I mentioned (from FreeBSD live system CD or by using FreeSBIE), e. g. # mount /dev/ad0s1e /mnt/usr Because the installer does not expect /var to exist, and because it does reside on the former / partition which is /mnt/ while installing (as far as I remember), /var cannot be accessed. In this case, / needs to be mounted as /mnt/ and /usr needs to be mounted as /mnt/usr; the problem is: if /var really points at /usr/var, then /mnt/var will point at /usr/var, too, which does not resolve because it exists as /mnt/usr/var during the installation. An idea would be to specify a different path in the partition editor, but not let the installer form an /etc/fstab from this setting. Another idea would be to change the /var symlink on / from /var@ -> /usr/var to /var@ -> usr/var so that it will work when / is mounted as /mnt/; the result will then correctly be /mnt/var@ -> /mnt/usr/var > (running an email server on this box runs the risk of 'filesystem full' > with a 'small' restricted /var partition , this way the problem is escaped) That's why I prefer to use "one big / partition" in such settings where I have no chance to reliably determine the future requirements of partition sizes. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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