80 Mb / enough for 7.x? OK to delete /stand/ and /modules/ ?

[Anish Mistry]

On Thursday 12 June 2008, fbsd2 wrote:
> Greetings list,
>
>    Given recent EOL announcements, I'm trying to upgrade an ancient
> machine from 5.5 to 7. It has 80 Mb total in the root partition,
> /home/, /var/, /usr/, and /tmp/ on other partitions, and NFS mounts
> /usr/src, /usr/obj, and /usr/ports from a slightly newer/faster
> box.  I've seen
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/relnotes.html   and
> http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-stable&m=121278826119286&w=2
>
> which seem to suggest that even with INSTALL_NODEBUG during
> buildkernel, 7 might not fit in an 80 Mb /.  Must I partition a new
> disk to give more space to /, or can I find more space by deleting
> /stand/, /modules/, and possibly /rescue/ to shoehorn a custom 7.x
> kernel in the available space?  TIA
It should fit, though you may have issues with kernel.old pushing you 
over the limit.

-- 
Anish Mistry
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