On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, PFJ wrote:
> I have an FC1 box that tracks the testing repository. With the
latest updates
> it got part way through updating, failed on cpp (unpacking failed) - disk
> was mostly empty. This set of updates applied so far also broke up2date
> entirely
One thing which always did puzzle me is why, unlike Windows, neither RH
or Fedora ever checks to see if you have enough room for any install.
Surely if the rpm included the unpacked size and then did a quick check
to ensure there is enough unpacking and installing space, failed RPM
installs would be far less frequent.
It does check for disk space before doing installation. If you
find that it fails, report a bug against the proper component
(anaconda, rpm, up2date, whatever), or your best guess to what
component is at fault.
I've done many installations in which I was short on disk space,
and was promptly informed that I could not continue - before
anything began installing. It also refused to install for me
once due to not having enough free inodes on /, so it doesn't
just check disk space, but also free inodes.
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Mike A. Harris
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OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat