VCSA Upgrade: Stage 2 upgrade data export location

 While upgrading VCSA from v6.7 to v7, I was greeted with 

The default partition '/' has only 3.8 GB of available space. Enter a new export directory on the source machine below.

 


To remediate, SSH to old VCSA, enter command

df -h

and observe the list of partition we have in VCSA. Choose any partition that has adequate free space and copy the part under column "Mounted on". In this case, I chose the last partition.

 



 

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