freebsd-update not checking disk space?

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Tue Oct 25 08:13:07 UTC 2011


On 10/25/11 00:52, René Ladan wrote:
> I tried to upgrade a server at work from 8.2-RELEASE-i386 to 9.0-RC1-i386
> using freebsd-update.When running 'freebsd-update install' to install the new
> kernel, but that failed because there was insufficient disk space. This resulted
> in freebsd-update thinking everything is ok but left the kernel unbootable.

Yes, this is a known issue in freebsd-update -- it needs to be much smarter
about detecting and handling errors.  Unfortunately I haven't had time to
deal with this (and it's a lot of work).

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Colin Percival
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