On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Neal Becker wrote:
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?
then just run preupgrade.
-sv
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