Date: 10 Feb 2004 09:37:37 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full Message-ID: <44r7x3atla.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20040210091944.GD78073@users.munk.nu> References: <20040210123328.E75523@enterprise.another.com.au> <20040210073154.GB75928@users.munk.nu> <20040210201000.K78751@enterprise.another.com.au> <20040210091944.GD78073@users.munk.nu>
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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.
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