Yum update failure -

[Chris Murphy]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:

> I've never used gparted before but so far have managed to shrink the largest
> partition 20+ GB. However that is an extended partition and I need to add
> space to / [/var/cache/yum/x86_64/21/fedora is what wants more room] and I
> don't understand how to deal with that?

/ is on sda3, /home is on sda5, so they are likely discontinuous
regions of the drive. The / needs to be either LVM or Btrfs based in
order to use discontinuous regions of the drive.


> If I botch this I can still re-install and start from scratch again but
> would prefer not.

This looks most likely, unless you can find out what's consuming so
much space on /.



-- 
Chris Murphy