FESCO ticket#270 - preupgrade and F-12

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Neal Becker wrote:

> James Laska wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 13:00 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 14:56 -0500, James Laska wrote:
>>>> Greetings folks,
>>>>
>>>> After careful review by Will Woods around recently discovered problems
>>>> related to preupgrading to Fedora 12, I've filed ticket#270
>>>> (https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/270) for discussion at the next
>>>> FESCO meeting.  Please take a moment to read the details in the ticket.
>>>>
>>>> The high-level summary from Will ...
>>>>
>>>>         preupgrade to F12 is basically not going to work for anyone
>>>>         without significant manual workarounds, due to insufficient
>>>>         disk space on /boot.
>>>
>>> How much disk space will one require on /boot to perform the update
>>> without work arounds ?
>>
>> From the ticket (see URL above).
>>
>>         Here's the details.
>>         The default /boot partition is 200MB, but there's some overhead:
>>         Ext3/Ext4 overhead:  7MB
>>         Reserved space:     10MB
>>         F11 kernel:          8MB (at least - usually 3 kernels = 24MB)
>>         GRUB/EFI files:      1MB
>>         Total overhead:     26MB
>>
>>         So there's 174MB of usable space maximum, and usually 158MB
>>         available.
>>
>>         preupgrade now requires at least 167MB free space on /boot:
>>         F12 installer images:  143MB (8mb larger than F11!)
>>         F12 kernel:             18MB (10mb larger than F11!)
>>         RPM/anaconda tmpfiles: >=8MB (measured in stupid tests)
>>         Total:                 167MB (Was 149MB in F11 - no problem!)
>>
>>> Can gparted resize /boot ?
>>
>> There are definitely workarounds available, but none that meet the
>> criteria for preupgrade as an effortless upgrade option.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James
>
> What if I have already a large /boot?

then just run preupgrade.

-sv