Feature changed by: Luc de Louw (delouw) Feature #303736, revision 10 Title: yast and libzypp should respect the disk space reserved for root openSUSE-11.1: Rejected by Stanislav Visnovsky (visnov) reject date: 2008-07-08 12:18:47 reject reason: Postponing. This is nice to have. Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Desirable Projectmanager: Desirable Requested by: Ladislav Slezak (lslezak) Description: If e.g. root partition has 70MB free user space and 500MB free space reserved for root user yast reports 570MB total free space. But installation of a package which is greater than 70MB fails: installing package kdelibs3-devel-doc-3.5.5-45 needs 335MB on the / filesystem Yast should display the non-root free space (70MB in this case). It seems that it is valid only for ext2/ext3 filesystems (XFS and ReiserFS seem to not support root space). Default reserved space for ext2/ext3 is 5%. References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237309 + Discussion: + #1: Luc de Louw (delouw) (2009-07-12 14:43:12) + The problem is that the default reserved space is way to much for + todays diskspace available. IMHO this issue should be addressed + upstream, the default space should be much less than 5% or even a fixed + amount of space e.g. 100MB. + The reserved space for root is tought for emergencies and not for + installing new packages, at least not with that size. + At the end of the day it is not a good idea to support that feature. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/303736