This may be heresy on the list, but I do not agree with the auto- partitioning one-size-fits-all approach.
I've had a full /usr cause an unbootable system via a failed relink. There was a thread on bugs@ not too long ago, it may or may not have been fixed in 7.8, but you'll want to fix this situation ASAP. As you can see /usr/obj and /usr/src are simply wasting space if you are not building packages. I encounter this on micro-VMs where I build on a dedicated build host and live on binary packages alone. Your filesystems are empty so I assume this is the case. My suggestion (if you are *very* careful): 1. Delete the slices for /usr/obj and /usr/src 2. Create a new /usr filesystem in the unallocated space 3. Clone the old /usr to the new /usr 4. Once you reboot into the new filesystem layout, you can repurpose the free space of the old /usr (e.g. /var/log or something). Regards Lloyd Martin Schröder wrote: > Hi, > I just had an upgrade 7.6 -> 7.7 fail due to not enough free space on /usr. > > I had to manually delete /usr/share/relink/kernel/GENERIC.MP/ to free space. > System is an apu2, so amd64. > > The system now seems to run o.k., only kernel relinking fails because of > missing > /usr/share/relink/kernel/GENERIC.MP/ (of course) > > The disk setup is now: > > > df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sd0a 1005M 290M 665M 31% / > /dev/sd0k 7.2G 7.2M 6.9G 1% /home > /dev/sd0d 1.5G 10.0K 1.4G 1% /tmp > /dev/sd0f 2.0G 871M 1.0G 46% /usr > /dev/sd0g 909M 435M 429M 51% /usr/X11R6 > /dev/sd0h 3.6G 1.2G 2.2G 36% /usr/local > /dev/sd0j 5.6G 2.0K 5.3G 1% /usr/obj > /dev/sd0i 1.6G 2.0K 1.5G 1% /usr/src > /dev/sd0e 2.3G 68.6M 2.1G 4% /var > > Seeing that an unpacked GENERIC.MP for amd64 takes up 623MB and the > kernel has a size of 224 MB, I doubt that this system will be able to relink a > kernel with 1GB free space. > So I will eventually have to move /usr to a larger partition (sigh). > > But the upgrade guide says > "Verify that the /usr partition has a size of at least 1.1G." > This system has a /usr with 2G, but see above. > > Should that minimum size be increased or how is the upgrade supposed to > succeed on my system? > > Best > Martin > > PS: Of course thanks to the devs for the system!
