On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 13:00 -0400, Jim Duda wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade from FC7 to FC8 via Yum. > > After dependencies are resolved and download occurs, the update starts, > but fails with these messages: > > installing package fedora-release-8-5 needs 8KB on the / filesystem > installing package perl-XML-SAX-0.16-2.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem > installing package xorg-x11-drv-tek4957-1.1.0-4.fc8 needs 8KB on the > / filesystem > installing package foomatic-3.0.2-53.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem > installing package libgpg-error-1.5-6 needs 8KB on the / filesystem > installing package iksemel-1.3-2.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem > installing package perl-XML-LibXML-Common-0.13-9 needs 8KB on the / > filesystem > installing package glx-utils-7.0.2-3.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem > installing package rpm-python-4.4.2.2-7.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem > > Error Summary > ------------- > > Can anyone explain what needs 8KB on / filesystem means? ---- the space on your hard drive partition that includes the /var filesystem is full. df -h # listing of free space in human form yum clean all # cleans all headers, downloaded packages might help Craig
