[Mageia-dev] RPM Filesystem space check broken?

Thu Dec 15 22:30:23 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 15/12/11 21:28 did gyre and gimble:
+> Hi,
+> 
+> Doing some tests in a VM relating to LVM+/usr etc. etc. I ran into a bit
+> of an issue:
+> 
+> [root at localhost ~]# rpm -Fvh dracut-014-1.csg2.noarch.rpm
+> Preparing...                ###########################################
+> [100%]
+> 	installing package dracut-014-1.csg2.noarch needs 2MB on the /usr
+> filesystem
+> [root at localhost ~]# df
+> Filesystem         Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
+> rootfs             1.1G  192M  782M  20% /
+> devtmpfs           360M     0  360M   0% /dev
+> tmpfs              365M     0  365M   0% /dev/shm
+> /dev/sda1          1.1G  192M  782M  20% /
+> /dev/mapper/vg0-1  3.4G  932M  2.3G  29% /usr
+> tmpfs              365M  296K  365M   1% /run
+> tmpfs              365M     0  365M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
+> tmpfs              365M     0  365M   0% /media
+> 
+> 
+> Clearly all my FS's have > 2M but this check still seems to kick in.
+> What's up?
+
+Wow, quickest "prove to yourself it's not an error" ever. /usr was
+mounted ro. urpmi'ing the file told me that.
+
+Perhaps the rpm check could be improved to help protect the stupid from
+themselves (i.e. me!)
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
+Day Job:
+  Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/
+Open Source:
+  Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/
+  PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/
+  Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
+