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Bug 493371

Summary: RPM won't install package, complains about filesystem space
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Nathan Wood <nathan_wood>
Component: rpmAssignee: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Description Nathan Wood 2009-04-01 15:28:53 UTC
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

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Comment 1 Nathan Wood 2009-04-01 15:41:39 UTC
I found the problem. That 1.1GB RPM uncompresses to over 12GB! RPM is reporting accurate statistics. This can be closed.