From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20021216 Description of problem: See the URL for my original report on this, additional discussion about the issue at https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/private/rpm-list/2002-August/016240.html Just checked the status on RPM 4.2 from rawhide and it's still using "signed long" in diskspaceInfo_s structure which isn't enough... I've been patching RPM for my customers to use "signed long long" there without any problems, if it can't be fixed easily for non-linux platforms then at least please fix it for Linux? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): any rpm version up to and including rpm-4.2-0.51 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mount ridiculously big filesystem (somewhere over 1.5TB or so) 2. try to install any rpm Actual Results: It'll complain about insufficient diskspace on the huge filesystem, even if the rpm wouldn't actually install anything in there (!) Expected Results: Packages should install regardless of how big filesystems are mounted on the system. Additional info:
Fixed in like rpm-4.2-0.60. Please note that huge file systems are unsupported by the Red Hat distro, and rpm cannot do better than that.
Thanks. I got all I asked for - that is, keep rpm working despite people mounting things from monstrous file servers :)