Bug 28528 – Default location in /var too small.

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Bug 28528 - Default location in /var too small.

Summary:	Default location in /var too small.

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	up2date (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Preston Brown
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Reported:	2001-02-20 21:54 EST by Henri Schlereth
Modified:	2015-01-07 18:43 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-02-20 21:54:21 EST
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Description Henri Schlereth 2001-02-20 21:54:17 EST

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 00:22:20 EST

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...

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