Re: [TCLUG:20818] release my hard drive space (rpm)

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Ben Luey wrote:
> My /usr partition is reserving the last 5% of my space for root. So df
> produces:
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda5             284M  261M  7.9M  97% /
> /dev/hdc1             498M  476M     0 100% /usr
> 
> And won't let normal users touch the usr partition, but root can without
> any problems, except when I use rpm. 
> 
> [root@localhost rpm]# rpm -Uvh openssh-2.1.1p3-3mdk.i586.rpm
> installing package openssh-2.1.1p3-3mdk needs 5Kb on the /usr filesystem
> 
> I tried teh --force option, but no luck. How can I use this last 15meg of
> space through rpm? 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben

tune2fs -m 0 /dev/hdc1

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