[OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrading under HD constraints: not enough space to upgrade

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrading under HD constraints: not...:

> any way to upgrade an OpenIndiana install if the build in HD is short of
> memory (missing 4GiB, available are 3,9 GiB)?

In English, the storage space on a hard disk drive usually isn't
considered "memory", so I assume this might just be a language translation
issue.

Has the system been upgraded previously?  If so, you may have multiple
older boot environments.  You can check with

 	beadm list

If you do have older boot environments that you no longer need, you can
remove the older ones to possibly free some space.  It may not free much,
though, if the files that are part of the boot environment's snapshot
are also shared with other snapshots or the running system.

> Any option to 'pkg update' to
> take it in chunks to fit in 3,9 GiB?

It might be possible, but it would be complicated and quite dangerous
for someone that isn't experienced with the procedure.

Since you've said you can't increase the hard drive size, your most likely
option is to remove something you don't need.

I guess you already have a very minimal install of OpenIndiana so you've
probably already removed any packages you don't need. If you have any
packages that you don't need and that are not dependencies for other
packages, you may want to try removing those.

The 'pkg list' command won't show you package sizes, but you can use 'pkg
info' and a filter to display all packages with their size:

pkg info | sed -ne 's/^  *Name: //p' -e 's/^  *Size: //p' | paste - - | sort

Good luck!

Tim
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