I've installed VirtualBox on a Win7 workstation and established a running FC14 VM. Everything was fine until I tried doing a yum upgrade and then I discovered my boot partition needed to be at least 7GB! to be able to perform the upgrade.
I've already gone into the VirtualBox interface and increased the virtual disk size, but does anyone have any working hints on using the GParted iso to increase the size of my VM boot partition?
Also, why didn't FC14 establish an adequately sized boot partition during installation? Seems odd the default install would be setup to create a boot partition too small to ever perform a subsequent upgrade. Did I miss something? Is there a way to point yum to some other place on disk to allow the upgrade to complete?
Thanks - Tod
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:02 -0700, Tod Thomas wrote:
I've installed VirtualBox on a Win7 workstation and established a running FC14 VM. Everything was fine until I tried doing a yum upgrade and then I discovered my boot partition needed to be at least 7GB! to be able to perform the upgrade.
That can't de right. No way does the boot partition need to be 7GB. More like 500MB. Do you mean the root partition? If so, try saving space by moving /var/cache/yum to a different partition and leaving a symlink in its place.
poc
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:02 -0700, Tod Thomas wrote:
I've installed VirtualBox on a Win7 workstation and established a running FC14 VM. Everything was fine until I tried doing a yum upgrade and then I discovered my boot partition needed to be at least 7GB! to be able to perform the upgrade.
That can't de right. No way does the boot partition need to be 7GB. More like 500MB. Do you mean the root partition? If so, try saving space by moving /var/cache/yum to a different partition and leaving a symlink in its place.
poc
I typed GB but meant MB:
Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test
Transaction Check Error: installing package kernel-2.6.35.12-90.fc14.i686 needs 7MB on the /boot filesystem
Error Summary ------------- Disk Requirements: At least 7MB more space needed on the /boot filesystem.
/dev/sda1 49M 26M 21M 57% /boot
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 13:14 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote:
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:02 -0700, Tod Thomas wrote:
I've installed VirtualBox on a Win7 workstation and established a running FC14 VM. Everything was fine until I tried doing a yum upgrade and then I discovered my boot partition needed to be at least 7GB! to be able to perform the upgrade.
That can't de right. No way does the boot partition need to be 7GB. More like 500MB. Do you mean the root partition? If so, try saving space by moving /var/cache/yum to a different partition and leaving a symlink in its place.
poc
I typed GB but meant MB:
Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test
Transaction Check Error: installing package kernel-2.6.35.12-90.fc14.i686 needs 7MB on the /boot filesystem
Error Summary
Disk Requirements: At least 7MB more space needed on the /boot filesystem.
/dev/sda1 49M 26M 21M 57% /boot
You also misstated the error message. It wants 7MB *more* on the /boot partition (not "at least 7[M|G]B").
You can recover space by deleting older kernels (e.g. kernel, System.map and initramfs files in /boot for versions except the previous one). The installation process can't know how many kernels you're going to want to keep which is why it can't guess how much space you might need. Do this using yum: yum remove kernel-<version> ("yum list kernel" to get current values of <version>)
Also take a look at the "installonly_limit" value in /etc/yum.conf and reduce it e.g. from 3 to 2. This will tell yum to keep only two kernels (current and previous).
If you decide to increase the size of /boot, put it up to 500MB or even 1GB to avoid issues, especially if you intend to use preupgrade in the future.
poc
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 13:14 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote:
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:02 -0700, Tod Thomas wrote:
I've installed VirtualBox on a Win7 workstation and established a running FC14 VM. Everything was fine until I tried doing a yum upgrade and then I discovered my boot partition needed to be at least 7GB! to be able to perform the upgrade.
That can't de right. No way does the boot partition need to be 7GB.
More
like 500MB. Do you mean the root partition? If so, try saving space by moving /var/cache/yum to a different partition and leaving a symlink in its place.
poc
I typed GB but meant MB:
Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test
Transaction Check Error: installing package kernel-2.6.35.12-90.fc14.i686 needs 7MB on the /boot filesystem
Error Summary
Disk Requirements: At least 7MB more space needed on the /boot filesystem.
/dev/sda1 49M 26M 21M 57% /boot
You also misstated the error message. It wants 7MB *more* on the /boot partition (not "at least 7[M|G]B").
You can recover space by deleting older kernels (e.g. kernel, System.map and initramfs files in /boot for versions except the previous one). The installation process can't know how many kernels you're going to want to keep which is why it can't guess how much space you might need. Do this using yum: yum remove kernel-<version> ("yum list kernel" to get current values of <version>)
Also take a look at the "installonly_limit" value in /etc/yum.conf and reduce it e.g. from 3 to 2. This will tell yum to keep only two kernels (current and previous).
If you decide to increase the size of /boot, put it up to 500MB or even 1GB to avoid issues, especially if you intend to use preupgrade in the future.
poc
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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.
- Tod
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Tod Thomas fr33zone@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 13:14 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote:
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:02 -0700, Tod Thomas wrote:
I've installed VirtualBox on a Win7 workstation and established a running FC14 VM. Everything was fine until I tried doing a yum upgrade and then I discovered my boot partition needed to be at least 7GB! to be able
to
perform the upgrade.
That can't de right. No way does the boot partition need to be 7GB.
More
like 500MB. Do you mean the root partition? If so, try saving space by moving /var/cache/yum to a different partition and leaving a symlink
in
its place.
poc
I typed GB but meant MB:
Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test
Transaction Check Error: installing package kernel-2.6.35.12-90.fc14.i686 needs 7MB on the
/boot
filesystem
Error Summary
Disk Requirements: At least 7MB more space needed on the /boot filesystem.
/dev/sda1 49M 26M 21M 57% /boot
You also misstated the error message. It wants 7MB *more* on the /boot partition (not "at least 7[M|G]B").
You can recover space by deleting older kernels (e.g. kernel, System.map and initramfs files in /boot for versions except the previous one). The installation process can't know how many kernels you're going to want to keep which is why it can't guess how much space you might need. Do this using yum: yum remove kernel-<version> ("yum list kernel" to get current values of <version>)
Also take a look at the "installonly_limit" value in /etc/yum.conf and reduce it e.g. from 3 to 2. This will tell yum to keep only two kernels (current and previous).
If you decide to increase the size of /boot, put it up to 500MB or even 1GB to avoid issues, especially if you intend to use preupgrade in the future.
poc
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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.
Gparted worked like a charm. I bumped up my boot and root partitions so have plenty of space now. thanks for your help and patience.
- Tod
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