On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Collins, Kevin [Beeline]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, I tried updating from RHEL5u1 to RHEL5u2 yesterday and failed when /var
> filled. Looks like yum used about 450MB of space in /var/cache/yum and still
> had not finished downloading all the packages...

Two approaches I have used:

1. link /var/cache/yum to a different filesystem:

rsync -vaz /var/cache/yum /opt/
mv /var/cache/yum /var/cache/oldyum
ln -s /opt/yum /var/cache/


2. upgrade piecemeal; this can be difficult

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