Installing PostGres

[Patrick Mast]

Dear all,

 

I started installing PostgreSQL 9 using yum and following the guide on http://davidghedini.blogspot.com/2010/10...entos.html.

 

However I get the error message:

 

Code:

Transaction Check Error:
installing package postgresql90-server-9.0.3-1PGDG.rhel5.x86_64 needs 16KB on the / filesystem
installing package postgresql90-9.0.3-1PGDG.rhel5.x86_64 needs 16KB on the / filesystem
installing package postgresql90-libs-9.0.3-1PGDG.rhel5.x86_64 needs 20KB on the / filesystem

 

When I check the disk usage i get:

 

Code:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1              3.9G  3.7G     0 100% /
/dev/md5              881G  1.5G  879G   1% /scratch
/dev/md4              3.4G   71M  3.1G   3% /tmp
/dev/md3              3.9G  372M  3.4G  10% /var
/dev/md2              9.7G  3.2G  6.0G  35% /usr
/dev/md0              578M   29M  520M   6% /boot

 

I can see that there is no space left on '/', but '/usr' and '/var' are mounted on different disks and have enough space for the installation. Is there a way to get the installation done without the need for space on '/'? It is a university machine and I would prefer to not going back to the sys-admins for a re configuration.

 

Thanks a lot!

 

Patrick