Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full
richard
richard at another.com.au
Tue Feb 10 13:18:50 PST 2004
Migrating data will be problematic as there's lot of user cr*p and custom
built web apps from generations of cowboy programmers, plus about 300 users
and a couple of dozen virtual domains.
As I'm really only after a stable implementation of a USB external drive
(for backup) am I better off trying an upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9?
Cheers,
Richard
-----Original Message-----
From: lowell at be-well.no-ip.com [mailto:lowell at be-well.no-ip.com] On Behalf
Of Lowell Gilbert
Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2004 1:38 AM
To: Jez Hancock
Cc: Richard Beyer; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full
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.
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