This is why I've always been opposed to this "over partitioning" that people do. It made some sense when hard drives were 2 gig but now it just causes problems for no tangible gain. > > On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 09:59:04PM -0500, techlist wrote: >> Transaction Check Error: installing package kernel-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL needs >> 6MB on the / filesystem >> >> But I have much more than 6M: > > That is a common, confusing error. > > What it should say is "needs 6MB more than what is currently avaliable". > > []s