[Yum] one more posting on "yum update" and /usr space issue

[seth vidal]

> and "yum update" is off and running.  when it's done, i still have
> 400M available in /usr, so i remove the exclude statement, run
> "yum update" and everything works.  when that's done, i still have
> 405M of /usr to spare and a fully-updated system.
> 
>   the moral of the story?  that "out of space" warning certainly has
> the potential to bite people who don't know about it and have a lot
> of pending updates.

Do you know what happens if you REALLY run out of space during a
transaction?

Your system breaks, badly, potentially irrevocably. 

This is why I pay attention to the disk space check response from rpm.

You can CHOOSE to disable it if you'd like.

-sv