Ingemar Nilsson wrote: > "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> I've never had a software installation touch my personal files. You >> should save your work in /home/user, where software installation >> doesn't touch (with the exception of the dot files, where your work >> shouldn't be stored either). > > That's not entirely true. I had some remote filesystems mounted using SSHFS > in a subdirectory to my home directory, and Yum complained about some > access permission in those remote directories when doing an update. I had > no idea why it would want to touch anything there. > > Regards > Ingemar > >From what I have observed, yum is doing a check of free space before starting the download/upgrade process. I think it is doing a generic check of free space on all mounted file systems, rather then a specific check for free space in /var/cache, and probably the parts of the / and /usr trees where it needs to install files, but it is ignoring the results it does not need. I am not sure what it does if you do not have room to download all the packages. I suspect it give you an error, and lets you ether free up some disk space, or manually split the update. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
