Re: 4.7->5.0, ran out of space on /

From: Vincent Poy (vince_at_oahu.WURLDLINK.NET)
Date: 01/22/03

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    Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:11:02 -1000 (HST)
To: dwbear75@gmail.com

    On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Kirk R. Wythers wrote:

    > I just ran into a problem trying to install the 5.0 world. I thought I
    > checked and had 30M free on / before I started this. However, after
    > building, the world, building the kernel, installing the kernel, running
    > mergemaster -p, I went to install the world and got the error 'out of
    > space on /'
    >
    > I need to find some room, but I'm a little nervous about what I can rm.
    > Here is what I'm looking at:
    >
    > 1) / partition is 79M, 64M are used (I was almost sure there was
    > more room than that on / before I satarted).
    > 2) /tmp is on it's own partition
    > 3) du -h on subdirectories breakdown like this.
    > a. 18M /boot
    > b. 1.4M /etc
    > c. 3.7M /kernel
    > d. 3.9M /kern.GENERIC
    > e. 6M /modules
    > f. 21M /sbin
    > g. 2.1M /stand
    >
    > as you can see that pretty much accounts for it. The rest of the stuff
    > is pretty small.
    >
    > I need to know if I can delete any of this stuff and still successfully
    > do a 'make installworld'?
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Kirk
    >
    > Ps... sorry about cross posting (I wasn't sure if 5-release qualified
    > for the stable list)

    /boot is something you need to keep since the kernel and the kernel
    modules have all been moved to /boot in 5.0
    /etc should stay too
    /kernel
    /kernel.GENERIC
    /modules can all be deleted since these are now in /boot
    /sbin
    /stand
    should stay

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