On 2025-05-09 12:53, Janne Johansson wrote:
> I had that with systems where /var/www is a symlink into
> another (small) slice/partition like "/".
Thanks. I had /var/www symlinked to /home/www, and that
was, for some reason, enough to cause the trouble. I removed
the symlink and the upgrade went fine. What is not understood,
however, is the fact that the symlink went *not* to a small partition;
my /home was
You have to consider how the filesystem looks during the upgrade,
especially if this is while you run inside bsd.rd. A symlink that goes
from /var/www to literally "/home/www" will not work during upgrades
when all the partitions are mounted under /mnt, whereas if the link
was in /var and made using:
ln -s ../home/www www then it will point to the right place from
/mnt/var/www to /mnt/home/www during bsd.rd also. Same goes for if you
must place /home/_sysupgrade somewhere else for space reasons, make
sure the softlink is relative and it will keep on working during
upgrades also.
ok. That seems to be it. (So the error message then says something
that seems a bit misleading: 'No space left on the device')
Thanks.
Ruda
