Bug 28528

Summary:	Default location in /var too small.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Henri Schlereth <henris>
Component:	up2date	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version:	7.1	CC:	srevivo
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Description Henri Schlereth 2001-02-21 02:54:17 UTC

Running up2date -u generates the following failure message:

The total size of the selected packages (247559 kb) exceeds your free
disk space (226084 kb).

Logically this means the /var default size is going to be a problem
unless I change it to /home which has plenty to spare. 

This was a default server install that has /var partitioned off at 251MB

Comment 1 Preston Brown 2001-02-21 05:22:20 UTC

this is true when you have to upgrade many many packages.  In this case, which
is more than likely the exception rather than the rule, you can use --tmpdir to
move the storage location.

Otherwise, /var is considered the proper location for such data at the moment
according to the FHS.

See similar problem with Apache's DocRoot...