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Description of problem:
Free space available in squashfs-root/LiveOS/rootfs.img inside install.img dropped below 500 MB on ppc64le and 85% of space is now used.
Reporting this bug to avoid unexpected behavior when free space is low in the installation environment, like we saw in bug 1661169 in the past.
Here is how free space was getting lower over RHEL-8 releases on ppc64le:
Size Used Avail Use%
8.0.0 2.9G 1.9G 1021M 66%
8.1.0 2.9G 2.1G 799M 73%
8.2.0 2.9G 2.1G 814M 73%
8.3.0 2.9G 2.2G 716M 76%
8.4.0 2.9G 2.3G 643M 79%
8.5.0 2.9G 2.4G 500M 84%
8.6.0-20211130.1 2.9G 2.5G 458M 85%
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
8.6.0-20211130.1
lorax-28.14.63-1.el8
How reproducible:
Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. unsquashfs <COMPOSE_PATH>/BaseOS/ppc64le/os/images/install.img
2. mount -o ro,loop squashfs-root/LiveOS/rootfs.img ./
3. df -h
Actual results:
Free space below 500 MB
Expected results:
Safe amount of free space, the size of rootfs.img is increased - proposing 4 GB for the image.
Additional info:
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.
For information on the advisory (lorax bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.
If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:1785