<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pocallaghan@gmail.com">pocallaghan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 13:14 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote:<br>
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan<br>
> <<a href="mailto:pocallaghan@gmail.com">pocallaghan@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br>
><br>
> > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:02 -0700, Tod Thomas wrote:<br>
> > > I've installed VirtualBox on a Win7 workstation and established a<br>
> > > running<br>
> > > FC14 VM. Everything was fine until I tried doing a yum upgrade and<br>
> > > then I<br>
> > > discovered my boot partition needed to be at least 7GB! to be able to<br>
> > > perform the upgrade.<br>
> ><br>
> > That can't de right. No way does the boot partition need to be 7GB. More<br>
> > like 500MB. Do you mean the root partition? If so, try saving space by<br>
> > moving /var/cache/yum to a different partition and leaving a symlink in<br>
> > its place.<br>
> ><br>
> > poc<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> I typed GB but meant MB:<br>
><br>
> Running rpm_check_debug<br>
> Running Transaction Test<br>
><br>
><br>
> Transaction Check Error:<br>
> installing package kernel-2.6.35.12-90.fc14.i686 needs 7MB on the /boot<br>
> filesystem<br>
><br>
> Error Summary<br>
> -------------<br>
> Disk Requirements:<br>
> At least 7MB more space needed on the /boot filesystem.<br>
><br>
><br>
> /dev/sda1 49M 26M 21M 57% /boot<br>
<br>
</div></div>You also misstated the error message. It wants 7MB *more* on the /boot<br>
partition (not "at least 7[M|G]B").<br>
<br>
You can recover space by deleting older kernels (e.g. kernel, System.map<br>
and initramfs files in /boot for versions except the previous one). The<br>
installation process can't know how many kernels you're going to want to<br>
keep which is why it can't guess how much space you might need. Do this<br>
using yum: yum remove kernel-<version> ("yum list kernel" to get current<br>
values of <version>)<br>
<br>
Also take a look at the "installonly_limit" value in /etc/yum.conf and<br>
reduce it e.g. from 3 to 2. This will tell yum to keep only two kernels<br>
(current and previous).<br>
<br>
If you decide to increase the size of /boot, put it up to 500MB or even<br>
1GB to avoid issues, especially if you intend to use preupgrade in the<br>
future.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
poc<br>
<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>Thanks Patrick - asleep at the wheel I suppose. I booted with gparted and bumped up the boot partition size along with root. I had already added 10GB to the VM via VirtualBox tools so I think I should have plenty now. Will follow up after everything is settled.<br>
<br><br>- Tod<br>