Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full

[Jez Hancock]

Hi Richard,

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

Is there no chance you can perform a standard install from scratch?  I
had contemplated moving from 4.8 to 5.x, but am seriously putting it
off because I imagine *upgrading* from 4.x to 5.x isn't too
straight-forward - perhaps others could shed light on whether it's
recommended to attempt it or not?

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.

> 
> Cheers,
> Richard
> 
> 
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Jez Hancock wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:36:27PM +1100, Richard Beyer wrote:
> > > I tried doing an upgrade from 4.8 to 5.2, and part way through I got a
> > > filesystem full error (about 3 in a row actually) as each partion filled
> > > up.  (No panic - doing it off a mirror).
> > >
> > > My question is - obviously the CDROM sysinstall isn't going to work for me
> > > - what now?
> > Get a bigger hard drive? :P
> >
> > More details might help - how big is the disk drive you're installing
> > to?  How big are the partitions created in the install process?  What
> > type of installation are you attempting - full/minimal/etc ?
> >
> > The minimal installation takes up very little room - around 3-400MB iirc
> > which should be small enough to fit on any hdd manufactured in the last
> > 5 years or so.
> >
> >
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