failed upgrade lack of hard disk space
Matt Temple
mht at research.dfci.harvard.edu
Tue Nov 18 02:26:03 UTC 2003
Mark Loatman wrote:
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> The issue is why would it say it is outta of drive space if there is
> 30gb free?
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> Mark Loatman wrote:
> | I am trying to upgrade to fedora from redhat 9. When it transfers the
> | image to the hard disk, during the upgrade, it tells me the hard disk is
> | out of space. There is 30gb of free space on the machine. Has anyone
> | else had to deal with this issue?
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> What kind of data is this? Is it your /home directory or just stuff from
> your personal folder. I just backup my /home/jcsitte directory using
> either using ftp onto another machine or just cp the whole thing over
> the new directory. Then I do the install of the new OS or upgrade.
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You've got to look at the partitions. For example, many of us have
little, dinky /var or /boot or / partitions. RPM databases are in
/var/lib. If you upgrgraded from RedHat X to Redhat 9,
the likelihood of such partitioning is even higher.
Believe vme, better to be warned of not enough space than discovering it
2/3 of the way through the upgrade.
Matt
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