On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 19:50 +0100, Geoff Lane wrote:
> The result is I run out of space half way through the update.
>
> As I'm going to replace Gnome and a number of other heavy weight apps with
> slimmer alternatives I occurs to me that deleting them before the update is
> a good idea.
Are you sure that's what's using your disk space? I'd seen before
that /var/pkg/download hadn't been cleaned up as a result of a failed
upgrade. Once I removed that, it gave me lots of space back.
I'm running on a 4gb eeepc quite happily: I do image-updates by
sending/recving to an external 20gb USB disk, boot from that, run the
image-update then send/recv the resulting update root back over to the
main internal SSD.
I also have a 4gb SD card which I keep /opt on, so openoffice and the
(rare) bits of blastwave I use live on that.
I found I can keep about 2 boot environments locally, and the default
software stack on it quite happily. I tend to run mine with about 700mb
of space for user-data, which is just about enough (though occasionally
run into trouble when running the root zpool out of space :-/ )
cheers,
tim
