Bug 352433

Summary:	YAST2 claims root file system to be full even if it isn't
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Marko Kaening <mk-novell>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	lslezak
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	i586
OS:	openSUSE 10.2
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Description Marko Kaening 2008-01-08 20:12:43 UTC

I found the below described behaviour already in the SuSE (even believe 7 and) 9 series and it is still there, at least up to the up to now installed OpenSuSE 10.1 and 10.2.

YaST2 claims that root file system is too full, if I try to install e.g. the linux sources, which require a lot of space on the hard disk.

What really happens is that YaST does not seem to realize that "/usr" is my case mounted on a SEPERATE PARTITION. That's where the kernel source code would have to be saved to (here "/usr/src/linux"). Instead it just checks "/" and notices that its partition is too small, which is indeed correct because in my installations it has never been greater than 200-500MB and did therefore not leave enough space for the voluminous kernel sources.

What I usually do - when I get this misleading warning of YaST2 - I just ignore it. What happens is then that it does install the sources where they have to be and that is it...

Much ado about nothing.

Though, did not want to leave this unmentioned, since this bug might confuse beginners.

Comment 1 Ladislav Slezák 2008-01-16 10:05:28 UTC

As far as I know the problem is fixed in openSUSE-10.3... (If I'm mistaken then then please reopen the bug and attach yast logs.)