[Mageia-dev] RPM Filesystem space check broken?

[Colin Guthrie]

'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


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