Bug 55792

Summary:	upgrade fails: not enough room on /
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	olchansk
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Matt Wilson <msw>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	CC:	olchansk
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Description olchansk 2001-11-06 19:06:54 UTC

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Description of problem:
The installer does not do proper checks on available disk
space before starting an "upgrade".

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Try to upgrade from redhat-6.2 to redhat-7.2 on disk with about 1 Gbyte
of free disk space.

Actual Results:  Upgrades to redhat-7.2 fail with "unsufficient disk space"
errors after the extremely time consuming "preparing to install" progress
bar. I had two failures out of two upgrades- one being 23 Mbytes short on
disk space (on a 12 Gbyte disk with 1 Gbyte free before
the upgrade), the other 10 Mbytes short. This is ridiculous.



Expected Results:  The installer should:

1) make it clear how much space is available and how much is
   needed, in the package selection screen.
2) warn that there is not enough space *before* going through the      
   painfully slow "checking package dependancies" and
   "preparing to install" phases.
3) include a reasonable margin of error, to avoid silly
   "short 1 Mbyte out of 5 Gbytes of disk space" failures.
4) if there is not enough space, automatically offer the user
   to unselect some packages.



Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-04-09 22:35:18 UTC

This will require substantial changes to the way the upgrade process works. 
Will revisit for a future release.

Comment 2 Dave Kritzberg 2005-01-21 08:39:07 UTC

I have had this very problem upgrading my laptop from FC1 to FC3.  The
installer said I needed 526MB more room on /.  But to my knowledge,
there was plenty of room on the drive.