how can I delete obsolete BEs if I have run out of space and have to boot
from LiveCD?

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Bill Sommerfeld <sommerf...@sun.com> wrote:

> On 02/06/10 08:38, Frank Middleton wrote:
>
>> AFAIK there is no way to get around this. You can set a flag so that pkg
>> tries to empty /var/pkg/downloads, but even though it looks empty, it
>> won't actually become empty until you delete the snapshots, and IIRC
>> you still have to manually delete the contents. I understand that you
>> can try creating a separate dataset and mounting it on /var/pkg, but I
>> haven't tried it yet, and I have no idea if doing so gets around the
>> BE snapshot problem.
>>
>
> You can set the environment variable PKG_CACHEDIR to place the cache in an
> alternate filesystem.
>
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David
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