How much space do I need on "/" for a 7.4 to 8 stable upgrade?

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 18:15:49 UTC 2012


On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Joe Moore
<joe.moore at holidaycompanies.com>wrote:

>
> I have 65MB of free space on "/". Is that going to be enough? I've already
> moved tftpboot to /usr, cleaned out /root, /boot/kernel.old, and /tmp.
>
> What else could I clean out if I need more space? I'm thinking some
> executables in /rescue. "ls -l"  shows most of them being  4MB each but
> that can't be right.
>

I don't know the specific numbers of what you'll need but you can probably
delete the *.symbol files(they aren't needed by default).  i386 also
produces smaller files/mem imprint than most equivalent amd64 bins.

-- 
Adam Vande More


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