[TriLUG] /usr at 92%, now what

[Greg Cox]

> When attempting to update my RH 8 box with the new glibc, glibc-common, and
> glibc-devel packages (2.3.2-4.80.6) rpm complained there was not enough
> space on /usr to install them. What's the best way to handle this?

The workaround I've used is:

rpm -e glibc-devel
rpm -F /path/to/glibc*rpm
rpm -i /path/to/glibc-devel*rpm

and it's worked so far.

> Can I simply relocate these packages?

I wish more RH packages were built for relocation (namely, the 47362
executables in /usr/bin from the netpbm-progs that mainly clutter up
tab-completion).