On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, bob jones wrote:
> Thanks in advance ... I'm at a loss on this one
>
> Running RHL 6.2 on an Intel 486 with 32MB RAM and plenty of disk space.
> Trying to install tetex-1.0.6-11.i386.rpm, I get the message:
>
> "installing package tetex-1.0.6-11 needs 2Mb on the / filesystem"
>
> and the install fails.
>
> Running df shows:
>
> 1k blocks Used Available Use% Mounted
> /dev/sdb1 495828 440428 29801 94% /
> /dev/sdb2 14871 2881 11222 20% /boot
> /dev/sda2 428408 13 406277 0% /build
> /dev/sdb4 459120 77797 357618 18% /home
> /dev/cdrom 656134 656134 0 100% /mnt/cdrom
>
> / and /boot and /build and /home are all ext2 filesystems. /mnt/cdrom
> is iso9660. /build is on /dev/sda2, and an old version of MSW is on
> /dev/sda1. Everything else is on /dev/sdb.
>
> /dev/sda2 is mounted on /build. /build is empty because I removed an
> old ATT version of UNIX that ran there. I can use /build for whatever
> I want .....
>
> /usr/local is a link to /home/local. I did that to get more space in
> the root filesystem.
>
> I don't understand the 100% for /mnt/cdrom.
>
The CD ROM is full - 100% used. This is normal for a CD ROM.
>
> I *think* that I have 29Mb available on /. Is that wrong?
>
You have a little less the 29Mb available on /, but I think you are
running into the problem of the 5% normaly reserved for root. I am
guessing that RPM is set up to not use that 5% when desiding if you have
enough free space left. (The amound of memory reserved for root is
configurable when you create an ext2 file system.)
>
> Could I make the space on /dev/sda2 available to /? Would mounting
> /dev/sda2 on / do that?
>
I am not sure what you mean here. You could do something like mount
/dev/sda2 on /mnt/<some mount point>, move a directory tree such as /usr
to it, and remount /dev/sda2 on /usr. This would work the same way as
your /home directory is mounted. Just remember that you normaly have to
have /bin, /etc, /lib, /sbin, and usualy /root as part of the / file
system.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> bob jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
>
Mikkel
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