Those seems like good solutions.
Thanks for your help with this. If you need me to provide any more information, let me know.
Atul
> From: n3npq.jbj@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:41:34 -0400
> To: rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: /var 100% used error
>
>
> On Apr 11, 2007, at 11:23 AM, Atul Ankola wrote:
>
> > Jeff,
> >
> > Filling up /var wasn't done on purpose - it happened on a telecom
> > server running in the field due to another problem.
>
> Understood.
>
> I suppose its time for rpm to guesstimate its disk space needs on /
> var and try
> to fail gracefully if it looks like there is insufficient space on /var.
>
> The easiest approach would be to automatically check manually configured
> minimum free space threshholds for mounted file systems before
> attempting
> anything. All that is hard there is committing to a configuration
> format and writing
> a bleeping parser.
>
> A little trickier but quite doable is to estimate the space needed
> for rpmdb entries.
> The tricky part is that there's no way to do the arithmetic
> precisely, if -- for no other
> reason -- that information returned from statfs is insufficient
> (because of root reserved
> space on file systems) to do the arithmetic. The current disk
> accounting multiplies
> by 21/20 (i.e. assumes 5% root reserved space) which is (or was) the
> ext[23] default.
>
> > The --ignore size was used because our preinstall script was
> > clearing the installation partition which doesn't have enough room
> > until our preinstall script finishes.
> >
> > Ok, we're still on 4.4.2. I'll see if we can upgrade to 4.4.8 or
> > later.
> >
>
> Glad to have you along. Try <rpm-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> if you
> need help.
>
> Backporting the stale lock detection/correction from rpm-4.4.8-0.4 to
> PNAEL's rpm-4.4.2 fork
> is quite doable if you want/need that instead.
>
> 73 de Jeff
>
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