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

[Stephan Althaus]

On 6/17/25 08:19, Udo Grabowski (IMKASF) wrote:
> On 16-06-2025 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!
>>
> First, look out for snapshots, an old one can eat a lot of space.
> Second, just enable compression for the rpool (lz4), that will
> affect newly written stuff and helps to just lift you over the
> fence. It's also even a bit faster as less has to be drawn from the
> platter, and CPUs are fast enough nowadays to easily cope with the
> compression overhead.
>
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Hi!

i use

# beadm destroy -s <old_be_name>

to get rid of BE-related snapshots along with the old BE.


Stephan