Increasing disk size of FC14 image running under Win7

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon May 2 15:40:02 UTC 2011


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



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