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Disappearing diskspace
Alex Shnitman writes:
> Hi.
>
> I have a very strange problem. Whenever I play with RPMs -
> install/uninstall them, diskspace disappears mysteriously. I install an
> RPM, then uninstall it - but I have less free space then I had before I
> installed. I use "rpm -ih" for installing and "rpm -e" for uninstalling.
> It doesn't happen with all the RPMs but only with some of them. What is
> it? A bug in RPM? I have version 2.3.2. What can I do?
>
Well, just my two cents. Whenever you *build* and RPM package, all the
components get installed. This is because, probably, make install
command is done, but nothing gets erased afterwards. I used to do the
following:
build a package
<rpm -i> a package
<rpm -e> a package
...to make sure all stuff gets erased.
Another point - upgrade your rpm to the latest one in the updates
directory on the redhat site
Also, the figures would help. Does disk space mean 5 bytes or 5
megabytes?
Also, some RPMS create the configuration files and not always erase
them...
--
-Alexander
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Alexander L. Belikoff belikoff@netvision.net.il
Berger Financial Research Ltd.
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