preupgrade with limited disk space?

[cornel panceac]

2012/5/16 Per Bothner <per at bothner.com>

> This may be just a documentation issue, but now, with SSDs,
> we're back to the old problem of limited disk space.
> Of course preupgrade needs a lot of disk space for all the
> packages it downloads. Is there a way to use an external
> USB drive for temporary storage?  If not, temporarily
> clear out some space in another partition, such as /home?
>
> This page: https://fedoraproject.org/**wiki/How_to_use_PreUpgrade<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_PreUpgrade>
> talks about not enough space in /boot - but it doesn't talk about
> the problem of not enough space on root.
> --
>        --Per Bothner
> per at bothner.com   http://per.bothner.com/
> --
>

i'd say you can mount the external storage in /var/cache/yum
, but i never tried :)
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