Big news for small OpenBSD /usr partitions

https://www.osnews.com/story/143784/big-news-for-small-openbsd-usr-partitions/

Thom Holwerda Nov 13, 2025 · 1 min read
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Ever ran into issues using sysupgrade on OpenBSD because /usr ran out of space? OpenBSD developers are trying to address this issue.

Firstly, Stuart Henderson (sthen@modified the installer to increase free space prior to installing. […] Theo de Raadt (deraadt@modified sysupgrade(8) so that, if space is too tight, it will fail gracefully rather than risk leaving the administrator with a broken system.

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These are very welcome additions.