So I am installing SuSE 10.1 on my Thinkpad. When I get to "Patch
Download and Installation" and start to choose which patches to
install, pretty soon I get a big red warning: "Working Diskspace is
running out" and a nice bar graph that shows the root file system / to
be overflowed by requested patch files. So I back off on the last
patch I selected, and tell it to go ahead, and also remove downloaded
packages after update.
I really would like to know _where_ these patch files are stored while
they are downloaded. My root file system is only 1GB, but all the
places where I can imagine files being stashed are other mounted file
systems with plenty of free space, according to the same bar graph.
If I go peeking in another terminal window (ctrl-alt-F2) I find that I
have:
/home 4GB, 3.7GB avail
/tmp 1GB, 931M avail
/usr 8GB, 5.0GB avail
/var 1GB, 813M avail
/data 8GB, 4.7GB available
The potential growable file systems /srv and /opt have been symlinked
to /data/srv and /data/opt just in case they were the culprits. I
can't see any growth in their content while the download is taking
place.
Google search didn't tell me anything pertinent, neither did xpdf
search in the SuSE10.1 Reference Manual. Pay no attention to that
file system behind the curtain. :-)
carl
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