Ran out of disk space during yum update

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 19:21 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> In the new install I did, I was not alert and did a complete yum update, 
> and my / partition ran out.
> 
> 200 of 300+ packages were updated/installed, of course none cleaned.
> 
> Can I rescue this install by doing a yum clean all and then again do the 
> yum update for the remaining 100+ packages?
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I would have thought that your hard drive would fill up during download
portion of update and thus, none would have actually gotten installed.

Yes, I would 'yum clean all' and then try to pick globs to update such
as your primary Desktop system like 'yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop
Environment)"' or 'yum groupinstall 'GNOME Desktop Environment"' and
then get the rest of the enchilada with 'yum update'

Craig