How Much Space For PreUpgrade (Really)

[mathteacher]

I know this has been covered a lot but it seems as though there should be a definitive answer and I have yet to find one. How much free space in /boot is required to make preupgrade work? I have 173M, which according to the figures I've seen should be enough, but the preupdate client still complains. Any workarounds? I have already tunefs'ed and deleted old kernels.

Thanks.

now i'm not 100% sure, but i remember seeing in the release notes for Fedora 12 that the minimum for boot is now 300Mb...

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sorry, I just checked... minimum for /boot seems to be 250Mb

since Fedora 12.

[SlowJet]

Originally Posted by mathteacher

I know this has been covered a lot but it seems as though there should be a definitive answer and I have yet to find one. How much free space in /boot is required to make preupgrade work? I have 173M, which according to the figures I've seen should be enough, but the preupdate client still complains. Any workarounds? I have already tunefs'ed and deleted old kernels.

Thanks.

If your old system is so important that you must upgrade rather then re-install
why not use the safest method rather than a new whizbang idea that comes from the multiple yum upgrades sometimes needed for certain conditions, and preupgrade is the workaround for those that haven't a clue when to do the multiple steps and are to cocky to do a dvd upgrade even when they don't know what they are doing.

If the boot partition is too small, and it only gets bigger with f14 (500MB) and a boot partition can not be increased, usually, and this is Fedora (a testing and development Linux)
why not re-install and adjust your F13 to the future and get on with it.

SJ

[AdamW]

173MB, if memory serves, is right on the edge. Will Woods could give a definitive answer but he's on vacation for another week or so.

Originally Posted by AdamW

173MB, if memory serves, is right on the edge. Will Woods could give a definitive answer but he's on vacation for another week or so.

lol.
is that not what the installation guides are for? so much work goes into writing them and only Will Woods can give an answer?

[AdamW]

he's the guy who wrote preupgrade. =) I probably have the answer in my IRC logs somewhere from when we were talking about it prior to F12 release, but I'm damned if I can remember when that was or any likely search terms to find it easily...