FC7 to FC8 Upgrade - fc8 needs 8KB ?

[Jim Cornette]

Jim Duda wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> I followed your suggestion and did updates in small chucks.  I had to 
> dance around the updating of 'f*'.  I have it boiled down to just one 
> more update, that being 'filesystem'.  Is this just a coincidence that 
> updating "filesystem" needs 8kb on / filesystem?  I don't think this is 
> a disk space issue, as I did many large multi-megabyte updates in 
> various chunks.
> 
> Attempting to delete and reinstall filesystem would be ugly as it 
> involves 1000+ packages.
> 
> lroom# yum -y check-update
> 
> filesystem.i386                          2.4.11-1.fc8           fedora
> 
> lroom# yum -y update
> Setting up Update Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package filesystem.i386 0:2.4.11-1.fc8 set to be updated
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> ============================================================================= 
> 
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository Size
> ============================================================================= 
> 
> Updating:
>  filesystem              i386       2.4.11-1.fc8     fedora 118 k
> 
> Transaction Summary
> ============================================================================= 
> 
> Install      0 Package(s)
> Update       1 Package(s)
> Remove       0 Package(s)
> 
> Total download size: 118 k
> Downloading Packages:
> Running rpm_check_debug
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
> 
> 
> Transaction Check Error:
>   installing package filesystem-2.4.11-1.fc8.i386 needs 8KB on the / 
> filesystem
> 
> Error Summary
> -------------

I did an rpm -ql filesystem |less and there were listings way in excess 
of other packages I queried in the past. So apparently filesystem is 
actually ensuring the / partition has enough space. I never used ramfs 
for the initial / filesystem or nfs mounted system partitions.

As the only idea I would have for installing filesystem which is a 
fairly small package, I would try to install it without all the nfs 
mounts. Since I am not familiar at all with the system you have and 
reading your earlier posting which contained all of the volume mounting 
distributions, it overwhelmed me in its complexity.

This is an interesting problem caused by such a small package. That does 
not help you out much though in resolution. Somehow / has to be 
increased by at least 8kb, if emptying /tmp, not mounting volumes or 
entering single user mode will help is only guesswork.

Jim


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