On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 14:31 +0200, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 27. Oktober 2005 12:46 schrieb Robert P. J. Day: > > on a new install of FC4, trying to do a full update appears to be > > failing because yum calculates that it doesn't have enough space in > > /usr to complete the update. > > > > /usr has 2.7G free but there are 553 packages listed to be updated. > > i'm pretty sure there was an option to force yum to ignore space > > issues, no? i'm assuming that 2.7G of free space should be enough > > for the update to complete and that yum is just being incredibly > > cautious here and that i can just bypass that check. > > Try: > > [main] > [...] > # don't stat all fs: (which possibly leads to hanging (autofs/nfs)) > diskspacecheck=0 yes, that will work - but to be clear - this isn't yum's check. Yum is just relaying the diskspacecheck message from rpm. -sv