11.4 to 12.1, Out of Disk Space

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I just tried to upgrade from Opensuse 11.4 to 12.1 with a live upgrade using the directions here:
SDB:System upgrade - openSUSE

New packages were being downloaded just, so I left for a while. I returned to find that the downloads had stopped due insufficient disk space in root. The system monitor says I have 0 bytes free or available in /. My natural inclination is to just start uninstalling packages and then continue the upgrade, but Yast will no longer open.

Any thoughts on how I should proceed?

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su -
zypper clean --all

reboot

also check this
Clear Temp Files at Boot - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

  • Did you backup
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And what about to give us a small idea about how big your partition is, show us

df -h

Because when it was allready at 95% before you starrted installing …

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Thank you caf, zypper clean is something I wish I had known about sooner. It cleared almost 3 gigs of disk space. More than enough for the upgrade.

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Like I said though
Make a backup

FYI: I always do clean installs