Nano 512mb upgrade: filesystem full workaround
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Hello list,
I don't know if this has been discussed, maybe someone will find it useful.I just got a problem upgrading a pfsense 2.1 to one custom image I made. The issue is about upgrade size: official latest-nanobsd-512mb.img.gz is about 75M, mine is 85M.
During the upgrade the image is placed in /root along with sha256 file.
Here is a clean install mount layout
[2.1-RELEASE][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root(1): df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ufs/pfsense0 215M 164M 33M 83% / devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev /dev/ufs/cf 49M 743k 44M 2% /cf /dev/md0 38M 56k 35M 0% /tmp /dev/md1 57M 16M 36M 31% /var devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /var/dhcpd/dev
/root has only 33M available so the upgrade fails with a "filesystem full" message or "The command '/usr/bin/gzip -t '/root/latest.tgz'' returned exit code '1' "
So I put in a USB stick (device da0) and mounted it on /root just for the upgrade:
mount -t msdosfs -o large /dev/da0s1 /root
The upgrade now completes successfully.
After the reboot your /root is the same as always. -
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