Big news for small /usr partitions
by from OpenBSD Journal on (#71DK4)
Several recent commits have improvedsysupgrade(8)handling of low free disk space in /usr:
Firstly, Stuart Henderson (sthen@)modifiedthe installer to increase free space prior to installing:
CVSROOT:/cvsModule name:srcChanges by:sthen@cvs.openbsd.org2025/11/01 06:54:17Modified files:distrib/miniroot: install.sub Log message:Before extracting on an upgrade, remove share/relink/*, not justshare/relink/usr/lib/*. The old files aren't useful post-upgrade andthis increases the chance of successfully extracting base*.tgz files,so that people low on space in /usr have a better chance of gettinginto the system after a reboot."install.sub can delete the entire relink space" deraadt@