Problem on running update

satimis · 04-10-2005, 11:37 AM

Hi folks,

FedoraCore2

On running
# yum update

Code:

.......
......
Running test transaction:
Errors reported doing trial run
installing package kernel-sourcecode-2.6.10-1.771_FC2 needs 189MB on the / filesystem
installing package openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.3-9.4.0.fc2 needs 98MB on the / filesystem
installing package dump-0.4b39-1.FC2 needs 56MB on the / filesystem
installing package xorg-x11-100dpi-fonts-6.7.0-14 needs 56MB on the / filesystem
installing package xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts-6.7.0-14 needs 56MB on the / filesystem
installing package mozilla-mail-1.7.6-1.2.5 needs 61MB on the / filesystem
installing package mozilla-1.7.6-1.2.5 needs 82MB on the / filesystem
installing package emacs-leim-21.3-21.FC2 needs 54MB on the / filesystem
installing package libexif-0.5.12-2.2 needs 54MB on the / filesystem
installing package krb5-libs-1.3.6-4 needs 54MB on the / filesystem

I suspect the partition space being insufficient

$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hde2 5.6G 5.1G 241M 96% /
/dev/hde1 105M 8.9M 91M 9% /boot
none 189M 0 189M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hde5 3.2G 520M 2.6G 17% /home

Is there any solution?

TIA

B.R.
satimis

abisko00 · 04-10-2005, 11:42 AM

I guess you could free some space (cleaning-up /tmp, old logs in /var/log), or you need to resize your root partition (which may require some more effort).

In KDE I like to use the tool 'kdirstat', which gives you a nice graphical overview about files and their used space.

abisko00 · 04-10-2005, 11:44 AM

A possible resize could be to create a new partition (e.g. by shrinking /home) and mount e.g. /usr or /var to it.

Sorry, actually I planned to edit the previous post, must have ticked the wrong button.

satimis · 04-10-2005, 11:54 AM

Hi abisko00,

Tks for your advice.

Quote:

I guess you could free some space (cleaning-up /tmp, old logs in /var/log)....

I could remove /tmp on "konqueror". But how to check which of them being used not to remove it?

Quote:

In KDE I like to use the tool 'kdirstat', which gives you a nice graphical overview about files and their used space.

$ kdirstat
bash: kdirstat: command not found
$ su -
Password:
# kdirstat
-bash: kdirstat: command not found

# which kdirstat
/usr/bin/which: no kdirstat in (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin)

Please advice which package I need to install

TIA

B.R.
satimis

abisko00 · 04-10-2005, 12:08 PM

Quote:

I could remove /tmp on "konqueror". But how to check which of them being used not to remove it?

Don't remove /tmp! In a first attempt, I would delete only files that are available to the user account. I guess there is a little handwork required. Maybe you can exclude file with todays date, so only old data will be deleted.

Quote:

Please advice which package I need to install

Sorry, but I know only the SUSE package, which is named kdirstat. Don't know the name on FC2.

satimis · 04-10-2005, 08:24 PM

Hi abisko00,

Tks for your advice.

I removed some old tmp files and old log but still not much space gained

New;

Code:

$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hde2             5.6G  5.1G  259M  96% /
/dev/hde1             105M  8.9M   91M   9% /boot
none                  189M     0  189M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hde5             3.2G  422M  2.7G  14% /home

Previous;
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hde2 5.6G 5.1G 241M 96% /

# rpm -qa | grep kernel

Code:

kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2
kernel-sourcecode-2.6.10-1.8_FC2
kernel-2.6.10-1.8_FC2
kernel-utils-2.4-9.1.131

# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.10-1.8_FC2 #1 Mon Jan 10 14:46:18 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Could I remove
kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2
kernel-sourcecode-2.6.10-1.8_FC2
also "kernel-utils-2.4-9.1.131" to get more room. I won't recompile kernel on this Workstation

If still not sufficient room, I think I have to repartion the HD giving more room to
/dev/hde2

I never experienced "repartitioning' HD before. Maybe this is an opportunity to learn.

Google search on 'repartition linux hard drive' brought me many links/sugguestions

Could you recommend me a more reliable link/article. TIA

B.R.
satimis

abisko00 · 04-11-2005, 02:55 AM

Quote:

Could I remove
kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2
kernel-sourcecode-2.6.10-1.8_FC2
also "kernel-utils-2.4-9.1.131" to get more room. I won't recompile kernel on this Workstation

Sure! But you cannot remove the kernel package, only kernel-source. And I am not sure what is contained in kernel-utils. Maybe could get rid of some development tools and/or devel packages that might be installed on your system.

Quote:

Could you recommend me a more reliable link/article. TIA

Unfortunately not. When I did a re-partitioning, I only used the man-pages as information source. Not the safest way, but it worked. Be sure you backup your data before. I did the partitioning from a KNOPPIX CD.