One thing I have discovered - don't make the cache be over NFS. I got about 90% through my 'yum update' and it dies with a "stale NFS handle" error. I've done it twice, exactly the same on each server. And then afterwards, I no longer have yum or rpm installed :)
Kevin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Collins, Kevin [Beeline] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:10 AM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Subject: RE: [rhelv5-list] Alternate for /var/cache/yum? Thanks to you and FM, who both suggested the obvious solution of a symlink - DUH! Kevin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Daniel Franklin Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:49 AM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Alternate for /var/cache/yum? 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 _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
