FC7 to FC8 Upgrade - fc8 needs 8KB ?
Jim Duda
jim at duda.tzo.com
Sat Mar 22 20:56:59 UTC 2008
I believe I have plenty of space:
lroom# df -v
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
192.168.1.254:/tftpboot/muekow/i386
191782336 53905984 127977152 30% /nfsroot
none 258464 32 258432 1% /dev
/dev/shm 258464 0 258464 0% /dev/shm
192.168.1.254:/home 191782336 53905984 127977152 30% /home
192.168.1.254:/media 769177664 155350368 590384128 21% /media
However, this is a NFS mounted root file system (diskless head).
lroom# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
none on / type ramfs (rw)
192.168.1.254:/tftpboot/muekow/i386 on /nfsroot type nfs
(rw,vers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,nolock,proto=udp,timeo=7,retrans=3,sec=sys,addr=192.168.1.254)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw)
/dev/shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
192.168.1.254:/home on /home type nfs
(rw,vers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,nolock,proto=udp,timeo=7,retrans=3,sec=sys,addr=192.168.1.254)
192.168.1.254:/media on /media type nfs
(rw,vers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,nolock,proto=udp,timeo=7,retrans=3,sec=sys,addr=192.168.1.254)
/etc/auto.misc on /misc type autofs
(rw,fd=5,pgrp=1912,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect)
-hosts on /net type autofs
(rw,fd=10,pgrp=1912,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect)
/etc/auto.usb on /mnt/usb type autofs
(rw,fd=15,pgrp=1912,timeout=2,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect)
So technically the / filesystem is running from local RAM and all the
various pieces are mounted via mount points.
IIRC, I was able to upgrade this way from FC6 to FC7 without any issues.
Jim
Jim Cornette wrote:
> Jim Duda wrote:
>> I'm trying to upgrade from FC7 to FC8 via Yum.
>>
>> After dependencies are resolved and download occurs, the update
>> starts, but fails with these messages:
>>
>> installing package fedora-release-8-5 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
>> installing package perl-XML-SAX-0.16-2.fc8 needs 8KB on the /
>> filesystem
>> installing package xorg-x11-drv-tek4957-1.1.0-4.fc8 needs 8KB on the
>> / filesystem
>> installing package foomatic-3.0.2-53.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
>> installing package libgpg-error-1.5-6 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
>> installing package iksemel-1.3-2.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
>> installing package perl-XML-LibXML-Common-0.13-9 needs 8KB on the /
>> filesystem
>> installing package glx-utils-7.0.2-3.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
>> installing package rpm-python-4.4.2.2-7.fc8 needs 8KB on the /
>> filesystem
>>
>> Error Summary
>> -------------
>>
>> Can anyone explain what needs 8KB on / filesystem means?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jim
>>
>
> Since upgrading all at once is limited by the amount of disk space
> available in /var/cache/yum you might try to do incremental updates
> starting with glibc and allowing it to pull in deps for the lib.
> Afterward you might update certain packages in a certain alphabet like
> yum -y upgrade "[a-d]*" and similar ranging.
>
> You could make /var/cache/yum a larger drive depending on how your
> partitions are setup. The incremental upgrade is the best approach. Also
> upgrading in a real virtual terminal rather than a terminal within the
> GUI is safer. If X crashes during a major upgrade you are i for a real
> mess cleaning up the system.
>
> Jim
>
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