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

[Stephan Althaus]

On 6/16/25 23:22, Thomas Schweikle wrote:
> Hi!
>
> any way to upgrade an OpenIndiana install if the build in HD is short of
> memory (missing 4GiB, available are 3,9 GiB)? Any option to 'pkg update' to
> take it in chunks to fit in 3,9 GiB?
>
> It is impossible to replace the HD by a bigger one. And it is impossible to
> have physical access to the system. Any idea or hint how it could be done
> would be helpful!
>
Hello!

I would first think of reducing the swap and dump volume size.

List swaps:

$ swap -l

Mine is here:

# zfs list rpool/swap
NAME         USED  AVAIL     REFER  MOUNTPOINT
rpool/swap  51.0G  78.1G     10.5G  -

you could do zfs set volsize=1GB rpool/swap or something...


Regards,
Stephan