On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 15:10 -0500, 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!) With all my kernels removed except the current one, I have this: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 143G 89G 47G 66% / /dev/sda1 190M 14M 167M 8% /boot tmpfs 2.0G 88K 2.0G 1% /dev/shm /dev/sdb1 294G 242G 37G 87% /data uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Nov 3 23:41:33 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
