Bugzilla – Bug 115235
during update: warning: disk space almost exhausted
Last modified: 2005-10-03 12:04:55 UTC
I was running an update from beta-3 to beta-4 from network inst-source for the missing ~160 packages when yast stopped with 9 pkgs left for installation, telling me that disk space would be "almost exhausted" (see attached screen shot) while "df" shows that there are still 1.5GB left for the missing 9 pkgs: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 38038632 36534292 1504340 97% / yast knows before starting an installation/update how much disk space is available, it should not need nor do interrupt an installation just to ask such nonsense:-( in 9.3 beta test this request already costs me a whole day because the "unattended" update during night stopped very short after starting, leaving ~12 hours of work for my slow notebook. SUSE really should be able to handle that better!
Created attachment 48732 [details] screen shot
Probably this warning results from a percentile calculation. While it makes sense warning a user that there is less than 5% disk space left on the device, it does not make much sense if these 5% are more than let's say 2G. The `bug' was assigned.
and, under normal conditions (e.g. noone filling up the disk from a text console while the installation is running), it should never be necessary to issue such a disk space warning in the middle of an installation run. or, create an "unaddented expert installation mode" in yast where I can select "please don't bother me with warnings waiting for an ok-click in the mid of an installation" ...
Attach the logs of the update, please (see http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Submit_a_bug for details)
Created attachment 49454 [details] output of save_y2logs if you need any other data, please let me know
I modified the condition, now it displays the warning if used_size + 2 * package_size > disk_size I hope that doubling the package size doesn't cause problem (there is some overhead in the file system). Done in SVN for 10.1.