Re: freebsd-update install no space left on device

From: Daniel Tameling <tamelingdaniel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:26:28 UTC 
On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 09:59:05PM -0400, Robert wrote:
> 
> I do remember reading about that, thanks for the reminder. My free disk
> space is a good 65% again now. That clear up the free space issue, and after
> a reboot, the zroot/ROOT/default size is now 2.9GB, up from 2.0GB but still
> not the 5.7GB is was yesterday. Is this expected?
> 

freebsd-update downloads patches and stores them by default under /var/db/freebsd-update. For an update from 14.2 to 14.3 that might be quite large, and could explain the difference. If you are certain that you don't want to go back to 14.2, you can clean up that directory.

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Best regards,
Daniel