From: Reza A. <ar...@au...> - 2006-10-02 21:20:15
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On 02 Oct 2006, 01:48PM CDT, Lonnie Manning <man...@us...> wrote: > installing package coreutils-5.2.1-2 needs 3392Mb on the /gpfs/m filesystem > installing package grep-2.5.1-1 needs 3392Mb on the /gpfs/m filesystem > installing package tcsh-6.11-3 needs 3392Mb on the /gpfs/m filesystem > > > I'm uncertain why it's referring to the gpfs filesystem for the install -- I vaguely remember this happening to someone else. If I remember correctly, we found that the "space available" code in RPM makes assumptions about filesystem size, and values which overflow a signed long integer are going to cause problems. How large does `df` say /gpfs/m is? It's huge, right? I think the workaround was to use --ignoresize, or even temporarily unmount the filesystem. -- Reza Arbab ar...@au... |