Bug 4362 – rpm checks free space of wrong filesystem

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Bug 4362 - rpm checks free space of wrong filesystem

Summary:	rpm checks free space of wrong filesystem

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Jeff Johnson
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Reported:	1999-08-05 02:48 EDT by v.kuhlmann
Modified:	2015-10-01 07:18 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-08-30 19:28:48 EDT
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Description v.kuhlmann 1999-08-05 02:48:30 EDT

rpm-3.0.2-6.0
I wanted to have a quick look at the kernel source w/o
actually installing it properly (can't - diskspace).
My filesystems / and /C are NOT** the same!
Command and result:
pukeko|volker[1]:/C/umsdos/k> rpm --noscripts --notriggers
--nodeps --force --ro
ot /C/umsdos/k -ivh ../kernel-source-2.2.5-15.i386.rpm
installing package kernel-source-2.2.5-15 needs 16M on the /
filesystem
Exit 1

Problem: rpm has checked the free space on the / instead of
on the /C filesystem. Need to use --ignoresize.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-08-16 12:51:59 EDT

Is your /C file system an ext2fs file system? Rpm finds space
by doing a statvfs call, and that may be broken on non-ext2fs
file systems.

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2001-05-21 16:07:05 EDT

I have no idea how to reproduce this problem and know of no other occurences.

Comment 3 openshift-github-bot 2015-10-01 07:18:02 EDT

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/openshift/origin

https://github.com/openshift/origin/commit/1fe90e87fcdc03f4fa3ba3a16ea9de2b86f2aa7b
Merge pull request #4872 from rhcarvalho/issue4362-BC-with-invalid-output.to

Merged by openshift-bot

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