FC7 to FC8 Upgrade - fc8 needs 8KB ?

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 13:00 -0400, 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?
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the space on your hard drive partition that includes the /var filesystem
is full.

df -h # listing of free space in human form

yum clean all # cleans all headers, downloaded packages might help

Craig