I just did a fresh installation of Fedora on VirtualBox – gave it 8GB of hard drive space. After installing a handful of packages via yum (and nothing more) I am getting the error:
Insufficient space in download directory
I'm new to VirtualBox and wanted to know if there is something I can do to avoid this. Should I have dedicated more than 8GB to the instance? (BTW, I tried both settings of allocating a static 8GB and allocating an expandable space with an 8GB max)
Best Answer
Here are some options:
yum remove
. You can get a list of packages viarpm -qa | less
.df -h
thenyum clean all
thendf -h
again to see if that cleared up a lot of space.fsck
,pvresize
,lvresize
,resize2fs
, etc... If all of this sounds greek to you, it might be "bighting off more than you can chew".yum clean all
between them can give you the breathing room you need.