Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full

[Lowell Gilbert]

Jez Hancock <jez.hancock at munk.nu> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:10:05PM +1100, Richard Beyer wrote:
> > Thanks Jez,
> > 
> > Here's my df -h
> > Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> > /dev/ad0s1a   126M   106M   9.4M    92%    /
> > /dev/ad0s1f   252M   9.6M   222M     4%    /tmp
> > /dev/ad0s1g    72G   2.7G    64G     4%    /usr
> > /dev/ad0s1e   252M    51M   181M    22%    /var
> > procfs        4.0K   4.0K     0B   100%    /proc
> > 
> > 
> > It's an 80Gig HDD and I was using the sysinstall | upgrade | all | include
> > ports
> 
> Seems odd that so much space is taken up by / - perhaps under 5.x more
> space is required?  I really do need to install 5.x at some point ... :P

Yes, more space is used in the root filesystem for 5.x.  [For 
several different reasons...]  

> Can you not do a backup of your data and start over with a fresh install
> of 5.2?  You have stacks of room on the hdd spare, so presumably doing
> this wouldn't be too problematic.

That's definitely the way to go if possible; there are a number of
advantagious new features that will be difficult to take advantage 
of otherwise.