yum update - (false) diskspace issue

[Sean]

On Mon, December 6, 2004 2:32 am, shrek-m at gmx.de said:
> Cam Desautels wrote:
>
>> Not sure what the proplem is here...I issue a yum update and it fails
>> saying that the packages require X amount of diskspace, but I _have_
>> enough space.
>>
>> initscripts-8.00-1 needs 2MB
>> kernel-2.6.9-1.1014_FC4 needs 71MB
>> gnome-python2-2.6.0-4 needs 72MB
>> cyrus-sasl-2.1.20-3 needs 73MB
>> foomatic-3.0.2-10 needs 75MB
>> (...)
>> dhclient-3.0.1-14 needs 104MB
>> prelink-0.3.3-1 needs 105MB
>> system-config-packages-1.2.21-2 needs 106MB
>> system-config-display-1.0.24-1 needs 106MB
>> desktop-printing-0.17-5 needs 107MB
>
> $ bc
> 2+71+72+73+75+104+105+106+106+107
> 821
>
> i doubt that these few packages need 821 MB
>

Actually looks like 107Mb is the accumulated total.   Since a kernel is
being installed is it possible that there is a separate /boot partition
that actually is full?

Sean