[PVE-User] Proxmox upgrade 4 - 5

[Thomas Lamprecht]

Hi,

On 9/10/18 10:49 AM, John Crisp wrote:
> I have been critical of some things in the past with Proxmox, so to be
> even handed I thought I'd just drop a note to say over the weekend I did
> 2 in place upgrades from v4 -> v5
> 
> Both went pretty well as smooth as silk, the only issue being that on
> one of them the old boot partition didn't have enough room for a new
> kernel and the dist-upgrade failed when trying to regenerate initramfs.
> (it was originally a V3 upgraded to v4) Slightly scary minutes.....
> 
> Perhaps a note on the wiki to say check for space before upgrading older
> systems would be helpful (assuming you have an older system with this)
> 

yes, makes sense to note this! Bit bad luck to run into this just on major
upgrade...

added:
> ensure your /boot partition, if any, has enough space for a new kernel (min 60MB) - e.g., by removing old unused kernels (see pveversion -v)
here: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_4.x_to_5.0#Preconditions

cheers,
Thomas