Bugzilla – Bug 167200
Installation denied: Avalable disk space miscalculated - /usr and /opt LV not taken into account
Last modified: 2006-04-18 06:39:40 UTC
Installation fails if the root partition is smaller than the estimated size of the installation. Other partitions are not taken into account, even though they would be the ones to carry most of the load (/usr, /opt). Override is not possible: YaST does offer the "continue if you know what you're doing" option at one point, but refuses to continue later on. Setup: 'Small' 300MB / ('root') partition plus LVM VolumeGroup with large 3GB /usr and /opt volumes and smaller /tmp and /var volumes. Calculated installation size of 1.9GB would fit easily, but YaST only sees the 300MB and refuses to continue installation. Workaround: Create an additional large (2GB) root LV, the old one gets to be /boot. Carry out installation. Boot system and copy data from the root LV to the /boot partition. Adjust fstab and grub settings to reflect orinigally intended disk setup. Reboot. Delete now old root LV. ==> Not a procedure the average user would want to go through... :-)
Please attach the y2logs. The problem sounds like bug 158785 - but this is marked as duplicate of bug 163197 which is stated FIXED (hover your mouse over the bug number ;-) Unfortunately, bug 163197 is not public :-( so I don't know more details.
Agreed, it seems to be the same problem as bug 158785. I can't say if it's related to bug 163197, which I cannot access either - but it's definitely not fixed in RC1...
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 158785 ***