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    2100 Upgrade from 23.09.1 to 24.03 Failing

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      SteveITS Galactic Empire @andy58
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      @andy58 are you out of space? Any old boot environments?

      Pre-2.7.2/23.09: Only install packages for your version, or risk breaking it. Select your branch in System/Update/Update Settings.
      When upgrading, allow 10-15 minutes to restart, or more depending on packages and device speed.
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        andy58 @SteveITS
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        @SteveITS
        The Disk usage is 61% of 1.9G (zfs). Mem usage is 48% of 3388 MiB. I assume the installation procedure would have stopped me from proceeding if I were short of space to complete the upgrade. All I did was follow the usual prompts, which normally works smoothly. How would I check for old boot environments? Thank you!

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          SteveITS Galactic Empire @andy58
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          @andy58 yeah 1.9 is small . See https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/troubleshooting/filesystem-shrink.html

          Edit: ignore the size values and delete old ones by version number.

          Pre-2.7.2/23.09: Only install packages for your version, or risk breaking it. Select your branch in System/Update/Update Settings.
          When upgrading, allow 10-15 minutes to restart, or more depending on packages and device speed.
          Upvote 👍 helpful posts!

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            andy58 @andy58
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            @andy58
            Sorry, just saw that I got a Notice that I was out of space. Very surprised that could happen. The installation procedure should have prevented the upgrade from starting. Not sure how to cure this, and not sure what happens when an upgrade fails midstream. Can I reclaim space somehow and just restart the upgrade? Thanks for any guidance.

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              andy58 @andy58
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              @andy58
              Ok, I found the old boot environments. There were 4 of them, all tiny (24k). So hard to imagine they are the problem, but I deleted the 3 oldest. To my surprise, that knocked my Disk Usage down to 25% (from 61%). Now I am wondering if it is ok to simply re-run the upgrade. I am showing 4.7G total now with 1.2G used.

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                nosaj
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                thanks, this fixed the same issue I had on my SG-2100 too! I was wondering for ages why my disk usage was so high so I solved two problems in one hit.

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                  SteveITS Galactic Empire @andy58
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                  @andy58 I had edited my post, not sure how they calculate space as 32k or whatever but it’s the space used by the changes on disk, since the BE snapshot.

                  It’s not great about cleaning up for you. I delete the oldest before each upgrade.

                  Pre-2.7.2/23.09: Only install packages for your version, or risk breaking it. Select your branch in System/Update/Update Settings.
                  When upgrading, allow 10-15 minutes to restart, or more depending on packages and device speed.
                  Upvote 👍 helpful posts!

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                    andy58 @SteveITS
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                    @SteveITS
                    Thank you for your suggestions. I re-ran the update and it finished without error. Glad to know about cleaning up old boot environments.

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                      Sandwave_Networks @SteveITS
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                      @SteveITS thanks for the link. for those that have PfSense+, you can use this feature to delete BE in GUI. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/backup/zfsbe/gui.html#removing-boot-environments

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                        Sandwave_Networks @andy58
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                        @andy58 I agree! there should be a disk space check command issued before update starts.

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