On 2022/10/26 10:48, Luke A. Call wrote: > On 2022-10-26 11:57:23-0000, Stuart Henderson <stu.li...@spacehopper.org> > wrote: > > On 2022-10-24, Peter Fraser <p...@thinkage.ca> wrote: > > > I make a stupid mistake; I didn't check partition sizes before doing a > > > sysupgrade. > > > sysupgrade ran out of space or /usr in the middle of the upgrade. > > > I know I should have checked first but it would be nice if sysupgrade did > > > warn me. > > > The site was a 20-minute drive away, and their down time was a lot longer > > > then I expected. > > > > It would be nice, but it's tough to reliably test this without actually > > extracting the files (and a warning with many false triggers wouldn't be > > all that much use either ..) > > Thanks for that info, it is interesting. > > I'm just me, but would definitely prefer a warning that > suggests a potential problem and says what to > check to be sure, over having to do a recovery. I do follow the > instructions and check it (so far, barring mistakes), but I imagine that > the program can still, without extracting the files, check it as well as > I would (df -h...), but more reliably.
Trouble is, it's highly likely that people who installed with disklabel auto defaults from any version before 7.2-current 2022/06/25 when the default size for /usr was greatly increased will trip a simplistic free space check, though in many of those cases there actually will be enough space to update ok. The "what to check to be sure" is, er, trying to update ...
