A possibly odd upgrade question

[Bas Smeelen]

On 05/20/2011 03:58 AM, Chris Brennan wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
>
> Yes, the recommended order. :-)
> One last question ... hopefully lol. am I going to run into any issues w/
> the default fbsd6 layout?
>
> [root at Ziggy [~]# df -h
> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a    496M    328M    128M    72%    /
> devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
> /dev/ad0s1e    496M    234K    456M     0%    /tmp
> /dev/ad0s1f     33G    5.7G     25G    19%    /usr
> /dev/ad0s1d    1.3G    1.0G    226M    82%    /var
> /dev/ad1s1d     54G    8.9G     41G    18%    /usr/home
> /dev/ad6s1      74G     61G     13G    82%    /mnt/music
> linprocfs      4.0K    4.0K      0B   100%    /usr/compat/linux/proc
> [root at Ziggy [~]#
>
> What I think I failed to previously mention is that this machine started out
> with fbsd6.x, was upgraded many times from 6x though 7.1 where it fell into
> disuse. With my recent repurpose of this box ... I'm concerned that it might
> be a moot point if base won't fit on rot root slice.
>
It can fit, however don't build the kernel with debug symbols and move or
remove the current debug symbol files of your kernel.

See below, our development box. It has GENERIC with debug symbol files, a
kernel.old and a kernel without debug symbols on /boot which is on the /
partition

FreeBSD dev.ose.nl 7.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE #0: Fri Mar 18 23:05:18
CET 2011     Freebee at dev.ose.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DEV  amd64
dev:/home/Freebee #df -h
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a    496M    295M    162M    65%    /
devfs               1.0K    1.0K      0B      100%    /dev
/dev/da0s1e    7.7G    642K    7.1G     0%    /tmp
/dev/da0s1f    135G     46G     78G    37%    /usr
/dev/da0s1d    7.7G    1.1G    6.0G    16%    /var



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