Yum is crazy : At least 104MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

yoreei · #1 30th July 2012, 04:25 PM

I just installed Fedora 17 64bit. When I try to install something from the repositories yum tells me this:
"At least 104MB more space needed on the / filesystem.". Actually, on my fisrt try it said "64" megabytes, not 104. This is strange, because I installed fedora on a 10 GB partition and I can see that sda2 (the / partition) is filled with only 2.4 GB. The package I am trying to install says that it will take only 300mb. I am very confused and nervous because I can't find anything even closely related to this in google.
Thank you!

sea · #2 30th July 2012, 05:15 PM

Whats the output of:

Overview (all)

Code:

df -m

Rootfs only

Code:

df -m|grep root

Maybe your /tmp is overfilled, with aborted or old tempfiles of previous installations.

yoreei · #3 30th July 2012, 08:23 PM

Sorry for not responding earlier - I am having some problems with logging in but I managed to type the commands you suggested through recovery mode. Here is an image of the output of both commands:

sidebrnz · #4 31st July 2012, 03:40 AM

Yum is not crazy. Your rootfs (the partition containing /) is 87% fill, with only 412 MB available. You need to clean up your system, get rid of some stuff that you don't need (or at least move it to a flash drive or something else) and make enough room for yum to download everything it needs with enough extra for it to work.

manhh · #5 31st July 2012, 03:48 AM

yum clean all

stevea · #6 31st July 2012, 05:23 AM

3GB in rootfs is too small for anything but a very minimalistic Fedora.
My laptop has 7GB IN USE in rootfs.

yoreei · #7 31st July 2012, 12:38 PM

yum clean all helped a bit. Now I have 58% in use on rootfs. It must have been the updates that had been taking this space because they were the only thing that I had installed. I don't know why df -m says that I only have 3GB on rootfs. As I said previously, I installed Fedora on a 10GB partition!

droidhacker · #8 1st August 2012, 05:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yoreei

yum clean all helped a bit. Now I have 58% in use on rootfs. It must have been the updates that had been taking this space because they were the only thing that I had installed. I don't know why df -m says that I only have 3GB on rootfs. As I said previously, I installed Fedora on a 10GB partition!

Did you install the root filesystem on a 10 GB partition? Or did you install Fedora into a 10GB *free space*? The latter will allocate a big chunk to SWAP.

yoreei · #9 3rd August 2012, 02:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by droidhacker

Did you install the root filesystem on a 10 GB partition? Or did you install Fedora into a 10GB *free space*? The latter will allocate a big chunk to SWAP.

Yes, I am sure that I installed it on a 10 GB partition with 2 GB of swap (on another partition)

sea · #10 3rd August 2012, 03:08 AM

The problem i see is this:
I do not see 10gb anywhere.
Your rootfs is 3gb, your home is inside those 3gb.

So anything else but a console OS is not possible to work flawlessy.
By that i think of: If you have copied just 1 movie, or your favorite cd ripped as mp3 (or ogg), by just that action you used another 1 gb.
If you're using the internet, or even youtube, you can quickly raise the temp (eg. ~/.cache) folder size rapidly with garbage either.

To verify and get more hints, whats the output of:

Code:

fdisk /dev/sda -l

I'm posting from windows and its very late here, it might be "-p" instead of "-l".

Either way, if i had 10gb to install a linux on, i'd use as this:

Code:

/boot	ext4	 384mb
swap	swap	 768mb
/home	ext4	2048mb
/	ext4	7040mb

Keep in mind, that is still VERY minimalistic!

yoreei · #11 4th August 2012, 03:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sea

The problem i see is this:
I do not see 10gb anywhere.
Your rootfs is 3gb, your home is inside those 3gb.

So anything else but a console OS is not possible to work flawlessy.
By that i think of: If you have copied just 1 movie, or your favorite cd ripped as mp3 (or ogg), by just that action you used another 1 gb.
If you're using the internet, or even youtube, you can quickly raise the temp (eg. ~/.cache) folder size rapidly with garbage either.

To verify and get more hints, whats the output of:

Code:

fdisk /dev/sda -l

I'm posting from windows and its very late here, it might be "-p" instead of "-l".

Either way, if i had 10gb to install a linux on, i'd use as this:

Code:

/boot	ext4	 384mb
swap	swap	 768mb
/home	ext4	2048mb
/	ext4	7040mb

Keep in mind, that is still VERY minimalistic!

Thank you for your answer. Unfortunately, I won't have acces to this computer any time soon.
I will, however, give you the output of the commands as soon as I can.