Hi all, When doing 'yum update' for a couple of glibc packages, it complained requiring 41MB on '/' filesystem: ========================================================================== [root@inf-cpg-c2036-lx root]# yum update gl* Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies Dependencies resolved I will do the following: [update: glibc 2.3.2-101.4.i686] [update: glibc-common 2.3.2-101.4.i386] Is this ok [y/N]: y Getting glibc-2.3.2-101.4.i686.rpm glibc-2.3.2-101.4.i686.rp 100% |=========================| 4.9 MB 05:31 Getting glibc-common-2.3.2-101.4.i386.rpm glibc-common-2.3.2-101.4. 100% |=========================| 12 MB 21:47 Running test transaction: Errors reported doing trial run installing package glibc-common-2.3.2-101.4 needs 41MB on the / filesystem [root@inf-cpg-c2036-lx root]# ========================================================================== BUT at the time I had 151Mb available on same '/' filesystem: ========================================================================== [root@inf-cpg-c2036-lx root]# df -m Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda9 1937 1707 151 92% / /dev/hda7 29 7 21 24% /boot none 125 0 125 0% /dev/shm [root@inf-cpg-c2036-lx root]# ========================================================================== BTW, my versions of updating apps are (from /var/log/yum.log ): ========================================================================== [ snip ] 04/02/04 13:04:19 Updated: yum 2.0.5-1.noarch 04/02/04 13:23:26 Updated: up2date-gnome 4.1.21-3.i386 04/02/04 13:23:26 Updated: up2date 4.1.21-3.i386 [ snip ] ========================================================================== And on a side note, I have exactly the same problem with 'yum update moz*' - the requirement for mozilla and friends is actually bigger. But I'd like to solve glibc first. OK. So 1 have 4 questions: 1. Who among yum / rpm / glibc is actually requesting space ? 2. Is this some kind of bug? Or should I understand that what's actually needed is a total of (151 + 41 = 192) Mb ? 3. Can I find out on which dir(s) this space will be used ? (and probably rearrange my cramped system with specific filesystems for those) 4. Is there a doc / page / ebook somewhere where I could understand this stuff better ? Thnx all Thiers
