Bug 498289

Summary: Need more space to install rpms after booting with live cd[openSUSE-KDE4-LiveCD-Build0067-x86_64.iso] - how can I get more space
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Forgotten User Si7ddX0wxG <forgotten_Si7ddX0wxG>
Component: Live MediumAssignee: Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Milestone 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86-64   
OS: Other   
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Attachments: hwinfo output

Description Forgotten User Si7ddX0wxG 2009-04-25 12:50:26 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032600 SUSE/3.0.8-1.3 Firefox/3.0.8

Booted with http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2-Milestone1/iso/openSUSE-KDE4-LiveCD-Build0067-x86_64.iso

# uname -a
Linux linux 2.6.29-6-default #1 SMP 2009-03-24 15:38:18 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
linux:~ # df -m
Filesystem           1M-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/loop0                2602      2179       292  89% /
udev                       942         1       942   1% /dev
linux:~ #

Question: Is there a option to increase the space free on / so I can install a selection of rpms ?.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from live cd 
2. open terminal session , do a df -m
3. Not much space free, laptop has 2GB ram installed
Actual Results:  
292 blocks available.

Expected Results:  
I wanted more than 292 blocks available so I could install a selection of rpms.
It would be useful to have more available on / so I can install a selection of rpms. Maybe a boot parameter to make available more ram available to do this e.g 50% or 1G in this case or a smaller percentage in systems that have less ram.
Comment 1 Forgotten User Si7ddX0wxG 2009-04-25 12:51:45 UTC 
Created attachment 288198 [details]
hwinfo output
Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2009-04-27 10:08:30 UTC 
It's hardcoding 470MB currently, I thought about 60% actually, but didn't come around to do the math.
Comment 3 Stephan Kulow 2009-05-07 14:59:19 UTC 
Marcus did now 70% of free memory. It would be great if you could test factory ISOs next week to see if this fits you.
Comment 4 Stephan Kulow 2009-05-07 15:00:15 UTC 
this should be better now, let's say FIXED
Comment 5 Forgotten User Si7ddX0wxG 2009-05-08 01:25:47 UTC 
Question: Where are the [new] test factory ISOs live cd to test with ?, so I can try it out.
Thankyou
Comment 6 Stephan Kulow 2009-05-08 07:58:48 UTC 
They will be available at http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/ - but as I said, don't expect the change to be active before next week.