insufficient disk space problem on FC3->FC5 upgrade

[icthy]

I'm trying to upgrade my FC3 laptop to FC5, but I'm running into an "insufficient disk space" problem. I gather from a previous post (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=107206&highlight=disk+space) that anaconda is trying to copy logs over (perhaps to /tmp), and indeed, when I look at /var/log/anaconda.log the last thing I see is "*copying anaconda logs".

My question is, how much disk space do I need for these damn logs? Here's the output of df (abbreviated):

Location Size Avail
---------- ------ --------
/ 2.0G 341M
/boot 99M 79M
/home 38G 7.7G
/tmp 2.0G 1.9G
/usr 8.0G 2.7G
/var 2.9G 1.2G

Any advice on what to do now would be most appreciated. I don't want to do a clean install, but will if I get sufficiently desparate. Thanks.

[bkat]

you could try uninstalling some large packages, do the upgrade, and then reinstall them.

Does the upgrade tell you how much disk space it needs on which partition?

[icthy]

No, the upgrade doesn't tell me how much disk space it needs nor where it needs it, which led to my question. I have uninstalled some large packages already, but it would be really helpful to know what I'm shooting for.

[LocutusOfBorg]

there's script called "rpmhogs.pl" (http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/rpmsize/) that's very useful for finding larger and unwanted packages - I discovered that I had 350Mb of docs installed (all from one package!) ...

[icthy]

Thanks Locutos and bkat. I ran the rpmhogs script, identified some big packages and removed them. I am nowposting this from my upgraded FC5 machine! (Still don't know how much space the logs needed and where it was needed...but don't care now:) ).

[vamped]

Doing a fresh FC5 install, and I get the message "Insufficient Disk Space".

Might be a problem with partition sizes?

I believe I tried the following:

/boot 100 MB
/ 5 GB
/usr 3 GB
/var 1 GB
/swap 2 GB
/home 11 GB

Unfortunately it doesn't tell you where the insufficient disk space was.

Are my sizes above good?