Re: failed upgrade lack of hard disk space

Mark Loatman wrote:

> 
> 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?
> 
> 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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