On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 at 13:55, Beartooth <bearto...@comcast.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:55:11 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>
> > On 10/30/20 9:47 AM, Beartooth wrote:
> >>
> >>      Running ]#  dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=33
> >> --allowerasing
> >>
> >> gets me a transaction test error saying
> >>
> >> At least 674MB more space needed on the / filesystem.
> >>
> >>      But gparted shows /dev/sda with 111.79 GB including 87.94 GB
> >> unused, and /dev/sdb1 with 1.8 TB, and only  4 MB used.
> >
> > gparted is not really the right tool.
>
>         I used it only to show the partitions; shudda said so. Sorry.
>
> > Do you really mean /dev/sda?
> > That's the whole disk, not a partition and if you have unused space,
> > that means you aren't using the whole drive.
>
>         Probably. The whole subject of partitions seems clear to me till
> I try to apply it, and then suddenly all I think I know evaporates. I was
> trying to check how much space I had available on the whole machine.
>
>         Would mate-disk-usage-analyzer have been better?
>
> > The more important
> > information is what does "df -h / /home /dev/sdb1" show?
>
>        $ df -h / /home/dev/sdb2
>          df: /home/dev/sdb2: No such file or directory
>

Missing the 2nd <space> character:  "df -h /<space>/home<space>/dev/sdb1"


>          Filesystem                 Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>          /dev/mapper/fedora-root00   15G   15G  885M  95% /
>
>         What does that first slash do? Should I be doing "df -h /"
> instead of just "df -h" routinely??
>
>         Fwiw, I *think* root has his own partition. Every time I try to
> use Anaconda for custom partitioning, I foul up, and end up having to
> accept the default. <sigh> But maybe that's convenient now.
>
>         Anyway, in case it helps, I also see
>
>          $ df -h
>          df: /run/user/1000/doc: Operation not permitted
>          Filesystem                 Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>          devtmpfs                   7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev
>          tmpfs                      7.8G   45M  7.8G   1% /dev/shm
>          tmpfs                      7.8G  1.6M  7.8G   1% /run
>          /dev/mapper/fedora-root00   15G   15G  877M  95% /
>

15G is very small, so not surprising that it is 95% full, but since
you seem to be using LVM it should be possible to use some of
the 88GB available on /dev/sda.


>          tmpfs                      7.8G  144K  7.8G   1% /tmp
>          /dev/sda1                 1014M  293M  722M  29% /boot
>          tmpfs                      1.6G   68K  1.6G   1% /run/user/1000
>


-- 
George N. White III
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