On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 15:25 -0500, 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? As Seth points out, you are likely okay in this scenario. The concern is for users who have installed using the default partition size for '/boot'. Thanks, James
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