Re: [rhn-users] up2date failure

[Bret McMillan <bretm redhat com>]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Bill Duemling wrote:

> But fail, due to lack of disk space.  How can I resolve this?

Usually there are 2 areas that need space, /var/spool/up2date for 
downloading the packages, and the temporary area that rpm uses during the 
upgrade/installation process, which I believe is /tmp (someone correct me 
if I'm wrong :).

> There was a fatal RPM error.  The message was:
> Failed installing packages:
> ('installing package kernel-2.4.18-27.7.x needs 11Mb on the / filesystem',
> (9, '/', 11220992))

Ok, so your '/' filesystem probably is what has /tmp, and needs more 
space.

> [root alpha up2date]# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3             372M  308M   45M  88% /

45 megs is not alot.  That's probably your problem.

Bret