Description of problem: When installing a 1.1G custom package, rpm complains there is not enough space on the filesystem. However, the system has more available capacity than it is asking for. The one time I was able to install this rpm was to an unvirtualized workstation. I'm not sure if this is a virtualization related issue, but it fails consistently on the KVM and Virtualbox VMs I tested on. [root@centos53-32 ~]# rpm -ivh nag2009-1-brown.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] installing package nag2009-1-brown.i386 needs 3269MB on the / filesystem [root@centos53-32 ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 14G 3.3G 9.2G 27% / /dev/hda1 99M 12M 82M 13% /boot tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
I found the problem. That 1.1GB RPM uncompresses to over 12GB! RPM is reporting accurate statistics. This can be closed.