Hello, What version of olpc-update?
On Feb 27, 2010, at 4:56 AM, Steven M. Parrish wrote: > On Wednesday 24 February 2010 07:13:22 pm Mikus Grinbergs wrote: >> Disclaimer: I am not asking for help; I am sharing my experience. >> >> Was running a large 'yum' update to an XO1 with os11 installed -- it >> failed, because 'yum' ran out of room in the '/' filesystem. I looked, >> and it turned out that before this 'yum' run started, /dev/mtdblock0 had >> been nearly 90% "used". [For conveniences sake, because '/' is 1GB, >> I'll say 10% of '/' is about 100MB (that disregards jffs2 "packing").] >> >> For comparison, I have a not-used-for-testing XO1 with os10 installed -- >> its '/' filesystem shows "used" a bit over 50%. The near 40% difference >> in "how much was used" between the two systems comes out to over 400MB. >> [ os11.zd did come with more facilities installed than did os10.zd ] >> >> The amount of software I had added myself was approximately equal for >> those os11 and os10 systems. Let us assume that I had filled some 100MB >> of the os11 system's space with "leftovers" from my testing. That still >> leaves the os11 system with 300MB plus of "occupancy" to be accounted >> for. My suspicion is that the major part of this difference in '/' >> filesystem "used" is attributable to directory /versions in os11. >> >> >> If my suspicion is correct, then the "ease of use" of olpc-update (which >> depends upon /versions) needs to be balanced against the potential for >> "shock" if the XO-1 user "runs out of room in the XO1" that much sooner. >> >> mikus >> >> >> >> p.s. >> >> A partial printout from 'du' on the two systems: >>> Directory os11 os10 >>> >>> /bin 6475 6474 >>> /etc 39513 39455 >>> /lib 36428 28144 >>> /tmp 0 0 >>> /var 35012 36009 >>> /boot 9319 9308 >>> /home 122330 44500 >>> /sbin 12722 12714 >>> /security 140 140 >>> /bootpart 0 0 >>> /usr 964111 868882 >>> /versions 925311 >> >> I have no idea why /usr came out so big - I had told 'du' not to follow >> symbolic links. [Note that the numbers for /usr alone are in the >> vicinity of the size of the whole /dev/mtdblock0 device -- does jffs2 >> "packing" account for this ?] >> >> Also, /versions has lots of cross-links, which 'du' might have counted >> as though they were separate files. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> olpc mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/olpc > > This is something I noticed when creating OS11. The resulting build was much > larger however I attributed it to the new build system and inclusion of > additional apps. I have just started working on OS12 and will do some > digging > to get the size back down. > > Steven > > -- > ===================================================== > Steven M. Parrish > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > gpg fingerprint: 4B6C 8357 059E B7ED 8095 0FD6 1F4B EDA0 A9A6 13C0 > http://tuxbrewr.fedorapeople.org/ > irc.freenode.net: > Nickname: SMParrish > Channels: #fedora-kde, #fedora-olpc, #fedora-edu, #sugar, #packagekit > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
