Oh, and according to https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/414963/fedora-25-to-27-upgrade-not-... you could also try symlinking or bind mounting /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade over to a device with more free disk space. I imagine having the upgrade packages on the root device is probably a better option if you can, so exercise caution.
On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 at 11:58, Will McDonald wmcdonald@gmail.com wrote:
If you can, show people actual command outputs, it'll make it easier to help.
Do you have any flex with LVM or are your filesystems directly on block devices? e.g.
root@fedora:~# pvs; vgs; lvs
Review your mounts/filesystems, e.g.:
root@fedora:~# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS zram0 252:0 0 8G 0 disk [SWAP] nvme0n1 259:0 0 953.9G 0 disk ├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 600M 0 part /boot/efi ├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 1G 0 part /boot └─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 952.3G 0 part /home / root@fedora:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/nvme0n1p3 953G 136G 817G 15% / devtmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /dev tmpfs 16G 84K 16G 1% /dev/shm efivarfs 246K 47K 195K 20% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars tmpfs 6.3G 2.3M 6.3G 1% /run /dev/nvme0n1p3 953G 136G 817G 15% /home /dev/nvme0n1p2 974M 292M 615M 33% /boot tmpfs 16G 672K 16G 1% /tmp /dev/nvme0n1p1 599M 20M 580M 4% /boot/efi tmpfs 3.2G 12M 3.1G 1% /run/user/1000
Understand where your space is being consumed on the / device. Don't use '-h' so you can sort easily, use 'x' so as to limit your 'du' to a single device. e.g.
root@fedora:~# du -xk / | sort -n -k1 | tail -20 1480504 /usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/azure 1561480 /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2024-04-27-13:17:11.106624-89698 1602284 /opt 2184720 /var/spool 2184720 /var/spool/abrt 2226356 /var/cache 2344592 /usr/lib/python3.12 2344592 /usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages 3429168 /usr/share 4395972 /usr/lib 5354284 /usr/lib64 9976580 /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects 9980444 /var/lib/flatpak/repo 10041060 /var/lib/flatpak 14354904 /usr 33858716 /var/lib/libvirt/images 33858724 /var/lib/libvirt 44206592 /var/lib 49862812 /var 65976164 /
(Optional, `du -xk / | sort -n -k1 | tac` if you prefer your output the other way round...)
Next, is any of that stuff you don't need? So in my example, I could look at my libvirt images, or flatpacks (which I will, because I'm not specifically using any, to my knowledge.)
Do you have logs you can rotate/archive from /var (if /var's on your / drive rather than its own block device / partition.)
Do you have any Yum cache lying around from old major version upgrades?
What's on the filesystem that *isn't* owned by a package, should it be there?
On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 at 11:23, Terry Hurlbut temlakos@gmail.com wrote:
Everyone:
I have a problem upgrading to Fedora 41. After I download all the packages and import the keys, it's telling me I need around 5 GB more space on the / filesystem. The / system is on a partition that has only 50 GiB total, and 395.2 MiB free. (I use the GiB and MiB symbols deliberately.) Specifically it says I need to find 4437 MB on that system. If I have to repartition, I understand that I might as well do a fresh install. My data is safe enough - it's on a completely different physical device, mounted as /crypt - and another petition on the "root device" is present with 47.4 GiB free (there's nothing on it but the contents of /home). But I can't remember half the stuff I installed from non-core repositories like rpmfusion, and if I have to install from scratch, I'll lose a lot of applications. (The kernels are on /boot, which is a 1.0 GiB partition that has more than 500 MiB free.) How can I free up that extra space (say, 5GiB for good measure) without having to reformat the root device for a fresh install?
Temlakos
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