Space needed for preupgrade

sidebrnz · #1 18th November 2009, 10:37 PM

My laptop currently has F 11, with /boot on a separate, ext3 partition. After running kernel.py, I have 156MB free out of 196. Does anybody know if that's enough? If not, would it be safe to use gparted from a CD to adjust things? (I have /home on its own partition, so if everything mucks up, the important stuff's still there. Besides, it's not my main box.)

leigh123linux · #2 18th November 2009, 11:01 PM

I'm not sure 40Mb is enough, try deleting your obsolete F11 kernels.

sidebrnz · #3 18th November 2009, 11:43 PM

I downloaded and ran kernel-prune.py and there was no output. Checking, I have exactly three kernels taking up 9.4M, plus whatever other files are associated with them. Is there a way to tell yum to trim me down to the newest kernel, without making it permanent?

leigh123linux · #4 18th November 2009, 11:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sidebrnz

I downloaded and ran kernel-prune.py and there was no output. Checking, I have exactly three kernels taking up 9.4M, plus whatever other files are associated with them. Is there a way to tell yum to trim me down to the newest kernel, without making it permanent?

I would use rpm to remove the older kernels ( just leave one )

Code:

rpm -qa |grep kernel

and use rpm -e to remove the two oldest kernels

sidebrnz · #5 19th November 2009, 04:27 AM

Now posting from the laptop, for convenience. Grump! I need 12 Meg. Not sure if that's enough, but there's a few other suggestions as well.

BTW, there's more coming out of that grep than you'd expect. To limit it to exactly what I need, I ran this:

uname -r
rpm -qa | grep kernel-PAE-2

because that got rid of everything except what I needed. I also used the tune2fs suggestion and got rid of /boot/efi and all its contents. Now, 39 M free. will try again...

Edit: This worked. All OK now.

jflesher · #6 19th November 2009, 07:35 AM

I had the same issue; I uninstalled the some old kernels and went from needing 16mb, to 8mb, then un-install kmod and another old kernel and got to 0mb, now my question is 0mb needed?

Seems like it doesn't need any more space, yet it still fails.

I think preupgrade needs to uninstall old kernels and kmods as part of its run time and give you more options to clean up space.

Update:
I just tired upgrading from a DVD and got the same error.

I might add this isn't a lap top; so it would seem it doesn't mater.

The error I'm getting is:

You need more space on the following systems:
0 M on /mnt/sysimage/boot

Seems like a bug:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpg...ace_in_.2Fboot

alexuk · #7 19th November 2009, 01:11 PM

Exactly same problem here. The install was a pervious upgrade to F11 from F10 - wonder whether this played a part? Freed up quite a bit of space in /boot.

jflesher · #8 19th November 2009, 07:18 PM

I deleted the update folder in boot and installed from a DVD, just need to do some tweaks now, but I'm back up and running. I'll play with this some more on another computer.

I did a fresh install from F11 prior to this, so I don't think F10 upgrade is a player, I think that if I did a fresh install of F12 all would have been ok; I might still do that.

**AdamW** · #9 20th November 2009, 12:10 AM

if you make sure to use the updated version of preupgrade that the common bugs page recommends, its space calculation should be accurate. i.e. it should correctly tell you whether you have enough space available for preupgrade to succeed or not.

sidebrnz · #10 20th November 2009, 12:21 AM

I can't speak for anybody else, but I had yumex update my F 11 system just before running preupgrade, so I should have had the latest and greatest. In the end, using rpm to remove my two older kernels and /boot/efi and all its contents did the trick. I'm not worried about my desktop, because it's ext3 and there's not a separate /boot partition. Thanx for the update, however, because it might keep somebody else from getting stuck.

jflesher · #11 20th November 2009, 03:39 AM

I had the latest updates also; I had a 200MB boot partition and had 27MB free and it still would not start.

**AdamW** · #12 20th November 2009, 06:34 AM

'the latest and greatest' ain't late enough - until about an hour ago, the update was only in updates-testing. the common bugs page _does_ explain very carefully how to install from there, though. if you just installed the 'latest' from updates, up till tomorrow, you still have the old one.

(the new one has been promoted to updates now and that will trickle through onto mirrors tomorrow I guess).

jflesher · #13 23rd November 2009, 08:19 AM

I just did a successful preupgrade on a 32 bit Intel 3.0, its has an old Gforce MX 4000, upgrade went smooth.

I followed these steps http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpg...ace_in_.2Fboot

did a package-cleanup --oldkernels

then did a rpm -qa | grep kernal and manually delete another old kernel after manually removing a akmod

then I enabled all the testing repo's: fedora-updates-testing.repo, rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo and rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.repo and then did a yum update