Ran out of space during upgrade

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Hey FreeBSD users.

Today I ran the upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2 on one of my servers. Sadly there was not enough harddrive space and the upgrade failed right after I was asked to edit my ssh config file. The plan is to migrate the server, but for now I wish to just get it back online. But I think that requires a delete of the downloaded files from the upgrade. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

How do I do that?
 
Thanks very much for your reply. I did the following.

Code: 
freebsd-update fetch
freebsd-update install
freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.2-RELEASE

dh -f command output afterwards
Code: 
root@relay:/root # df -h
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ada0p2    4.4G    4.1G    -41M   101%    /
devfs          1.0k    1.0k      0B   100%    /dev
 
Code: 
freebsd-update fetch
freebsd-update install

This would have updated you to the latest patch level of 9.1-RELEASE. It wasn't really required since you were upgrading immediately after.

Code: 
freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.2-RELEASE

This step downloads all the updates and preps files for merging. Everything I believe resides in /var/db/freebsd-update. Nothing gets committed to disk until freebsd-update install is used in the next step so it should be safe to remove that directory to reclaim space.
 
You need to identify the fat grown directories in your tree.

Check /usr and /var like this:

Code: 
#!/bin/sh
echo "Size [MB] of directories in $1 ..."
find $1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec du -shm {} \; | sort -n
 
Thanks for the advice.

I found the files to be in /var/db/freebsd-update/files.

There I had to detele all the *.gz files. I used the du -h command instead.
 
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