Bug 31564

Summary: 7.0 -> 7.1 default server upgrade: need 5M on /boot
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Ben Levenson <benl>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Ben Levenson 2001-03-12 20:29:27 UTC
build qa0310.0
TUI FTP upgrade 7.0 -> 7.1 won't complete due to lack of 
space on '/boot' -- 5 M too short.
The system was originally installed as 7.0 server with the 
default package group selection and auto partitioning.
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disk information -- from default 7.0 install:
df -h:
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5             249M   72M  164M  31% /
/dev/sda1              16M   12M  4.3M  73% /boot
/dev/sda3             3.7G   44k  3.4G   1% /home
/dev/sda2             3.7G  473M  3.0G  14% /usr
/dev/sda4             249M   21M  215M   9% /var
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fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 8678 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes

6 partitions:
#       start       end      size     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:        2        18        17       ext2                      
  b:       19      3849      3831       ext2                      
  c:     3850      7680      3831       ext2                      
  d:     7681      7937       257       ext2                      
  e:     7938      8194       257       ext2                      
  f:     8195      8451       257       swap

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2001-03-14 16:24:03 UTC
What is the problem? You need more space apparently.

Comment 2 Ben Levenson 2001-03-14 21:00:10 UTC
I wasn't expecting any space related errors during the upgrade, especially
since it was a default server install with more than sufficient drive
resources _AND_ the original partitioning scheme was created with the 
auto-partitioning feature in 7.0.  The details of the original partition map
are listed above.  


Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2001-03-20 05:15:52 UTC
What are the contents of /boot?  It seems like alot of space is being taken up.

I modified the autopartitioning some time ago for 7.1 to make /boot larger, btw,
so this should not be a future problem.

Comment 4 Brent Fox 2001-04-10 22:01:06 UTC
Do you have any more information on this bug?

Comment 5 Michael Fulbright 2001-04-20 15:26:27 UTC
The 2.4 kernel has apparently pushed the sizes so that the automatically choosen
values for /boot in previous releases is not large enough.  We've fixed this in
the 7.1 installer for new installs.  For your case perhaps you can move the
/boot directory to your /?  Or you could make a boot floppy for your old
installation, remove the contects from /boot, and try upgrading.  Unfortunately
you'll run into this problem again when you try to upgrade next time if you try
this option.

Marking this as NOTABUG since it is accurately reporting you don't have enough
disk space, and we have corrected the allocation problem for 7.1 installs.

Sorry for the inconvenience this has caused, I hope one of my suggestions will
help.

Comment 6 Ben Levenson 2001-06-28 19:11:32 UTC
Closing.