Re: pkg/53533: Suggestion: sysupgrade should terminate gracefully on full partitions.

[Leonardo Taccari <leot%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/53533; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Leonardo Taccari <leot%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/53533: Suggestion: sysupgrade should terminate gracefully on full partitions.
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 12:32:20 +0200

 Hello Lars-Johan,
 
 liman%cafax.se@localhost writes:
 > [...]
 > >Description:
 > Sysupgrade is a fantastic tool. but while using sysupgrade-1.5nb3 to upg=
 rade from NetBSD 7.1.2 to 8.0, my /usr partition went through the roof. Fa=
 ir enogh. It was indeed too small.
 >
 > The issue is that sysupgrade didn't notice. It just kept trying to pump =
 new files onto the full partition.
 >
 > I suggest adding more sensitivity to sysupgrade so that it detects a ful=
 l partition, and aborts gracefully - possibly leavning a status file behin=
 d somewhere so it can continue from where it left off when a sysadmin has =
 addressed the issue with the full partition.
 >
 > Just a thought ...
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > Fill up your /usr partition almost to the brim, then try to use sysupgra=
 de.
 > [...]
 
 Can you please report this problem upstream?
 
 I think that despite there is no HOMEPAGE in sysutils/sysupgrade its
 HOMEPAGE should be:
 
  <https://github.com/jmmv/sysupgrade>
 
 
 Thank you!