On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Tod Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 13:14 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote: >> > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan >> > <[email protected]>wrote: >> > >> > > 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 >> > > >> > > >> > I typed GB but meant MB: >> > >> > Running rpm_check_debug >> > Running Transaction Test >> > >> > >> > Transaction Check Error: >> > installing package kernel-2.6.35.12-90.fc14.i686 needs 7MB on the >> /boot >> > filesystem >> > >> > Error Summary >> > ------------- >> > Disk Requirements: >> > At least 7MB more space needed on the /boot filesystem. >> > >> > >> > /dev/sda1 49M 26M 21M 57% /boot >> >> You also misstated the error message. It wants 7MB *more* on the /boot >> partition (not "at least 7[M|G]B"). >> >> You can recover space by deleting older kernels (e.g. kernel, System.map >> and initramfs files in /boot for versions except the previous one). The >> installation process can't know how many kernels you're going to want to >> keep which is why it can't guess how much space you might need. Do this >> using yum: yum remove kernel-<version> ("yum list kernel" to get current >> values of <version>) >> >> Also take a look at the "installonly_limit" value in /etc/yum.conf and >> reduce it e.g. from 3 to 2. This will tell yum to keep only two kernels >> (current and previous). >> >> If you decide to increase the size of /boot, put it up to 500MB or even >> 1GB to avoid issues, especially if you intend to use preupgrade in the >> future. >> >> poc >> >> -- >> users mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> > > > Thanks Patrick - asleep at the wheel I suppose. I booted with gparted and > bumped up the boot partition size along with root. I had already added 10GB > to the VM via VirtualBox tools so I think I should have plenty now. Will > follow up after everything is settled. Gparted worked like a charm. I bumped up my boot and root partitions so have plenty of space now. thanks for your help and patience. - Tod
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