On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 09:38:55PM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:13:40AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > Jerry Amundson wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:38 PM, John Summerfield > >> <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> What it wants is to download 1.7 Gbytes of stuff. I don't have that much > >>> free space[1], but mounting a USB drive is possible. > >> > >> You've left out quite a few details if a 1.7 GB problem requires a 320 > >> GB solution. > >> > > > > See below, I need to buy a new drive and clone and retire the existing > > drive. There's no space for a new drive. > > Well, another solution is "delete 1.7 GB of data". You could for > example remove -devel packages (and definately debuginfo if you have > any): > > yum remove \*-devel \*-debuginfo > > and if that doesn't give enough space, consider temporarily removing > some applications to free up enough space to do the update, then put > them back after, e.g.: > > yum groupremove 'Office/Productivity' > > Check for huge logfiles in /var/log and delete or compress old ones, > etc. And now I think of more ways to clean up: yum install yum-utils package-cleanup --cleandupes package-cleanup --oldkernels package-cleanup --orphans package-cleanup --leaves -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
