I believe I have plenty of space:
lroom# df -v
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
192.168.1.254:/tftpboot/muekow/i386
191782336 53905984 127977152 30% /nfsroot
none 258464 32 258432 1% /dev
/dev/shm 258464 0 258464 0% /dev/shm
192.168.1.254:/home 191782336 53905984 127977152 30% /home
192.168.1.254:/media 769177664 155350368 590384128 21% /media
However, this is a NFS mounted root file system (diskless head).
lroom# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
none on / type ramfs (rw)
192.168.1.254:/tftpboot/muekow/i386 on /nfsroot type nfs
(rw,vers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,nolock,proto=udp,timeo=7,retrans=3,sec=sys,addr=192.168.1.254)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw)
/dev/shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
192.168.1.254:/home on /home type nfs
(rw,vers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,nolock,proto=udp,timeo=7,retrans=3,sec=sys,addr=192.168.1.254)
192.168.1.254:/media on /media type nfs
(rw,vers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,nolock,proto=udp,timeo=7,retrans=3,sec=sys,addr=192.168.1.254)
/etc/auto.misc on /misc type autofs
(rw,fd=5,pgrp=1912,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect)
-hosts on /net type autofs
(rw,fd=10,pgrp=1912,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect)
/etc/auto.usb on /mnt/usb type autofs
(rw,fd=15,pgrp=1912,timeout=2,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect)
So technically the / filesystem is running from local RAM and all the
various pieces are mounted via mount points.
IIRC, I was able to upgrade this way from FC6 to FC7 without any issues.
Jim
Jim Cornette wrote:
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?
Thanks,
Jim
Since upgrading all at once is limited by the amount of disk space
available in /var/cache/yum you might try to do incremental updates
starting with glibc and allowing it to pull in deps for the lib.
Afterward you might update certain packages in a certain alphabet like
yum -y upgrade "[a-d]*" and similar ranging.
You could make /var/cache/yum a larger drive depending on how your
partitions are setup. The incremental upgrade is the best approach. Also
upgrading in a real virtual terminal rather than a terminal within the
GUI is safer. If X crashes during a major upgrade you are i for a real
mess cleaning up the system.
Jim
