Mark Loatman wrote:
You've got to look at the partitions. For example, many of us have little, dinky /var or /boot or / partitions. RPM databases are in
The issue is why would it say it is outta of drive space if there is 30gb free?
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Mark Loatman wrote: | I am trying to upgrade to fedora from redhat 9. When it transfers the | image to the hard disk, during the upgrade, it tells me the hard disk is | out of space. There is 30gb of free space on the machine. Has anyone | else had to deal with this issue?
What kind of data is this? Is it your /home directory or just stuff from your personal folder. I just backup my /home/jcsitte directory using either using ftp onto another machine or just cp the whole thing over the new directory. Then I do the install of the new OS or upgrade. - --
/var/lib. If you upgrgraded from RedHat X to Redhat 9,
the likelihood of such partitioning is even higher.
Believe vme, better to be warned of not enough space than discovering it 2/3 of the way through the upgrade.
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