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ndallas
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ESXi 4.0 Patch Failed with Not enough Disk Space

I have tried to upgrade my ESXi 4.0 host using the vsphere 4.0 upgrade utility. This process worked on my test box but on the production server I get insufficient disk space to perform the upgrade.

This is a standard ESXi install. From the output of the df -h command below I can see that there is only 34.7 MB free for the /tmp directory. I believe that 50 MB is needed todo the upgrades. I have tried one upgrade at a time with the same results.

Does anyone have any idea why there would not be enough disk space and what needs to be done to fix it.

I am upgrading from build 164009 on one host and 171294. I m getting this error on both.

Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on

visorfs 215.9M 181.2M 34.7M 84% /

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ndallas

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Bartmosss
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Hi,

I got this error too when upgrading my ESXi server. All I did to resolve was to restart the host before starting the update. It seemed to clear some temporary file.

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Dave_Mishchenko
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If you're booting from USB then you might also want to check that you've defined a scratch location.




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ndallas
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Thanks for the feed back. Unfortunately, I did reboot and try again and I got the same error. I am also running off the local disk.

Nick

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