Re: Ran out of disk space during yum update

2009-02-08 Thread Rangeen Basu
If you have caching enabled, yum will store every package that it ever downloaded in the cache dir. Try doing a yum clean to possibly free some space. -- Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury Fedora Ambassador !!!Windows is "micro"-soft[ware]..I like bigger things!!! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-

Re: Ran out of disk space during yum update

2009-02-07 Thread Dennis Kaptain
>Dennis Kaptain wrote: >> a simple script that takes a long time but uses ABSOLUTE minimal space >It's not absolute minimal, you'd have to do it in a specific order (which is >extremely hard to compute) to use absolute minimal space. (In theory, >reverse dependency order would be it for installa

Re: Ran out of disk space during yum update

2009-02-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
Dennis Kaptain wrote: > a simple script that takes a long time but uses ABSOLUTE minimal space It's not absolute minimal, you'd have to do it in a specific order (which is extremely hard to compute) to use absolute minimal space. (In theory, reverse dependency order would be it for installations,

Re: Ran out of disk space during yum update

2009-02-06 Thread Dennis Kaptain
> > Subject: Re: Ran out of disk space during yum update > > > > Robert Moskowitz writes: > > > > > In the new install I did, I was not alert and did a complete yum update, > > > and my / partition ran out. > a simple script that takes a long t

Re: Ran out of disk space during yum update

2009-02-05 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
this issue and > would be searching the net for help!! > > -Original Message----- > Subject: Re: Ran out of disk space during yum update > > Robert Moskowitz writes: > > > In the new install I did, I was not alert and did a complete yum update, > > and my

RE: Ran out of disk space during yum update

2009-02-05 Thread bruce
From: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com]on Behalf Of Sam Varshavchik Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 4:51 PM To: Community assistance; encouragement; and advice forusing Fedora. Subject: Re: Ran out of disk space during yum update Robert Moskowitz writes: >

Re: Ran out of disk space during yum update

2009-02-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > I remember a command that will finish the cleanup of an aborted yum > transaction, but I can not think of it at the moment. Sorry. > > Mikkel > Wouldn't you know - I sent this, and then remembered the command. yum-complete-transaction from the yum-utils package.

Re: Ran out of disk space during yum update

2009-02-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > In the new install I did, I was not alert and did a complete yum update, > and my / partition ran out. > > 200 of 300+ packages were updated/installed, of course none cleaned. > > Can I rescue this install by doing a yum clean all and then again do the > yum update for t

Re: Ran out of disk space during yum update

2009-02-05 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 19:50 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Robert Moskowitz writes: > > > In the new install I did, I was not alert and did a complete yum update, > > and my / partition ran out. > > > > 200 of 300+ packages were updated/installed, of course none cleaned. > > > > Can I rescue t

Re: Ran out of disk space during yum update

2009-02-05 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Robert Moskowitz writes: In the new install I did, I was not alert and did a complete yum update, and my / partition ran out. 200 of 300+ packages were updated/installed, of course none cleaned. Can I rescue this install by doing a yum clean all and then again do the yum update for the remai

Re: Ran out of disk space during yum update

2009-02-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 19:21 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: In the new install I did, I was not alert and did a complete yum update, and my / partition ran out. 200 of 300+ packages were updated/installed, of course none cleaned. Can I rescue this install by doing a yum c

Re: Ran out of disk space during yum update

2009-02-05 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 19:21 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > In the new install I did, I was not alert and did a complete yum update, > and my / partition ran out. > > 200 of 300+ packages were updated/installed, of course none cleaned. > > Can I rescue this install by doing a yum clean all and

Re: Ran out of disk space during yum update

2009-02-05 Thread solarflow99
I think it should be ok to try yum again after you clear some space. I think it will work. On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > In the new install I did, I was not alert and did a complete yum update, > and my / partition ran out. > > 200 of 300+ packages were updated/insta

Ran out of disk space during yum update

2009-02-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
In the new install I did, I was not alert and did a complete yum update, and my / partition ran out. 200 of 300+ packages were updated/installed, of course none cleaned. Can I rescue this install by doing a yum clean all and then again do the yum update for the remaining 100+ packages? -- f