FESCO ticket#270 - preupgrade and F-12

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> said:
> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 15:10 -0500, James Laska wrote:
> >         preupgrade now requires at least 167MB free space on /boot:
> >         F12 installer images:  143MB (8mb larger than F11!)
> >         F12 kernel:             18MB (10mb larger than F11!)
> >         RPM/anaconda tmpfiles: >=8MB (measured in stupid tests)
> >         Total:                 167MB (Was 149MB in F11 - no problem!)
> 
> With all my kernels removed except the current one, I have this:
> 
> # df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1             190M   14M  167M   8% /boot

I just removed all but the running kernel (on a system that was a fresh
install of F11) and got a similar result:

# rpm -e $(rpm -qf /boot/vmlinuz* | grep -v "kernel-$(uname -r)")
# df -h /boot
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0              194M   15M  169M   9% /boot

That's right at the edge, and could push untested corner cases in
anaconda with respect to temp files and such.

I don't think increasing /boot just because of preupgrade is a viable
solution, as the installer image continues to grow.  Is it possible
instead to put the installer image (the real problem) somewhere else,
like /?  Why does it need to be in /boot?

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.