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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720150

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           Summary: rpm: free space calculation is botched
    Classification: openSUSE
           Product: openSUSE 12.1
           Version: Factory
          Platform: x86-64
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Critical
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: Basesystem
        AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: qa@xxxxxxx
          Found By: Beta-Customer
           Blocker: ---


Installing glibc-locale in my factory VM just failed, as rpm-4.9.1-29.1 thinks
it has no space left:

linux:/var/cache/zypp/packages/openSUSE-12.1-12.1-0/suse/x86_64 # rpm -ihv
glibc-locale-2.14-12.3.x86_64.rpm 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
        installing package glibc-locale-2.14-12.3.x86_64 needs 71MB on the /
filesystem
linux:/var/cache/zypp/packages/openSUSE-12.1-12.1-0/suse/x86_64 # df /
Filesystem     1K-blocks   Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2         948408 464256    435976  52% /

The funny thing: the disk space rpm wants increases linearly with the amount of
used bytes on the disk:

linux:/var/cache/zypp/packages/openSUSE-12.1-12.1-0/suse/x86_64 # dd
if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1M count=20
20+0 records in
20+0 records out
20971520 bytes (21 MB) copied, 0.0156471 s, 1.3 GB/s
linux:/var/cache/zypp/packages/openSUSE-12.1-12.1-0/suse/x86_64 # rpm -ihv
glibc-locale-2.14-12.3.x86_64.rpm 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
        installing package glibc-locale-2.14-12.3.x86_64 needs 91MB on the /
filesystem

linux:/var/cache/zypp/packages/openSUSE-12.1-12.1-0/suse/x86_64 # dd
if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1M count=40
40+0 records in
40+0 records out
41943040 bytes (42 MB) copied, 0.0359535 s, 1.2 GB/s
linux:/var/cache/zypp/packages/openSUSE-12.1-12.1-0/suse/x86_64 # rpm -ihv
glibc-locale-2.14-12.3.x86_64.rpm 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
        installing package glibc-locale-2.14-12.3.x86_64 needs 111MB on the /
filesystem

linux:/var/cache/zypp/packages/openSUSE-12.1-12.1-0/suse/x86_64 # dd
if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1M count=80
80+0 records in
80+0 records out
83886080 bytes (84 MB) copied, 0.0763985 s, 1.1 GB/s
linux:/var/cache/zypp/packages/openSUSE-12.1-12.1-0/suse/x86_64 # rpm -ihv
glibc-locale-2.14-12.3.x86_64.rpm 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
        installing package glibc-locale-2.14-12.3.x86_64 needs 151MB on the /
filesystem
linux:/var/cache/zypp/packages/openSUSE-12.1-12.1-0/suse/x86_64 # dd
if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1M count=800
dd: writing `test': No space left on device
473+0 records in
472+0 records out
495747072 bytes (496 MB) copied, 0.813001 s, 610 MB/s
linux:/var/cache/zypp/packages/openSUSE-12.1-12.1-0/suse/x86_64 # rpm -ihv
glibc-locale-2.14-12.3.x86_64.rpm 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
        installing package glibc-locale-2.14-12.3.x86_64 needs 496MB on the /
filesystem

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