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

[Jean-Pierre André]

When I get into this, I delete /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/file
and replace it with a symlink to another file system (actually to
an ntfs file system shared with Windows).

The directory /var/pkg/publisher/openindiana.org/file acts as a
cache and it is repopulated during the upgrade.

Jean-Pierre


Thomas Schweikle wrote on 6/16/25 11:22 PM:
> 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!
>