FC3 to FC5 upgrade - fails on transaction disk space

[Keith G. Robertson-Turner]

On 28/05/2006 16:21, B Wooster spake thusly:
> Removed all openoffice stuff, got only 1.5G back.
> 
> Then hit paydirt - found /var/cache/yum was huge, doing a
> 
> yum clean all
> 
> got 3G back.... then the FC5 upgrade started... (still going, not 
> complete yet, so far, so good!)

I periodically archive to external disk, then clean the yum cache. Saves
space, but lets me quickly get back up to speed, if I need to restore
the system from zero.

-- 
K.
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