Advice sought on upgrading from 4.11-R to 5.4...

[Brad Knowles]

At 4:56 PM -0700 2005-09-21, Kevin Oberman wrote:

>  Check in the CVS repository:
> 
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/UPDATING?annotate=1.342.2.24&only_with_tag=RELENG_5_4

	Thanks for the pointer!

>  One down side of an upgrade in-place is that you don't get the larger
>  root partition that is now default and you don't get UFS2 file systems
>  on your partitions.

	I almost never take the default installation options whenever I'm 
building a system.  They almost always result in the root filesystem 
being laughably small, or whatever.  In my case, I've got a 256MB 
root filesystem with 150MB free, so I think I'm okay there.  I did 
get burned with /usr being too small, even at 2GB.  With all the 
ports and stuff I've installed, I had to move /usr/local to a 
separate filesystem (which I already had), and put a symlink in place.

	As for UFS2, since I can't get this machine to boot off CD-ROM 
with the 5.x images (at least, not the ones I've tried in the past), 
I would like to keep the system in UFS1 anyway, just in case I need 
to reboot off the 4.x CD-ROMs and try to do some recovery things.

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