Re: [atomic-devel] atomic host upgrade fail

[Tim St Clair <tstclair redhat com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Colin Walters" <walters verbum org>
> To: atomic-devel projectatomic io
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 10:07:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [atomic-devel] atomic host upgrade fail
> 
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015, at 10:26 AM, Tim St Clair wrote:
> > I have a single oddball machine which appears to have failed an upgrade b/c
> > it ran out of space.
> 
> The "overwriting error" is a definite bug, but I think the system functioned
> as designed and left you with a working system even though the upgrade ran
> out of space in the middle.
> 
> You'd have to reclaim space to make it work.  One thing that will likely
> help is to prune the previous deployment.  `ostree admin undeploy 1` should
> leave you with only one tree.

had to free some other space up to run that command, but afterwards it all worked out. 

Thx Colin! 


> 
> Beyond that, I'd look for things consuming space in `/var`, like home
> directories.
> 
> If you plan to store substantial data in /, it's also possible to extend the
> root LV.

Nothing is being stored in / 

> 
> 

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Cheers,
Timothy St. Clair
Red Hat Inc.