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? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
