Bug #14905

Not enough space to auto-upgrade in 10GB .qcow2 virt. hard-drive

Added by Siltaar 2017-10-28 10:32:25 . Updated 2017-12-23 20:37:29 .

Status:
Rejected
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
emmapeel
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Start date:
2017-10-28
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0%

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Installer
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Description

Hi,

I created a Tails 3.1 system on a .qcow2 file used as a virtual kvm hard drive of 10GB.
Tails installed itself in a ~2GB partition and I gat the messages “Tails should be updated to 3.2 but I have not enought free space to do so automatically, go mannually”.

How to get the auto-upgrade feature working ?
Is it possible to resize the Tails partition ?


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Related issues

Related to Tails - Bug #11628: Error message on not-enough-free-space in Tails Upgrader is confusing Rejected 2016-08-10

History

#1 Updated by mercedes508 2017-11-27 15:11:33

  • Assignee set to emmapeel

#2 Updated by emmapeel 2017-12-23 16:43:24

  • Status changed from New to Rejected

No, it is currently not possible to do so.

You need to do a manual update every once in a while, unfortunately.

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2017-12-23 20:34:00

  • related to Bug #11628: Error message on not-enough-free-space in Tails Upgrader is confusing added

#4 Updated by intrigeri 2017-12-23 20:37:29

What emmapeel wrote is correct but lacks a detail that matters very much in the case at hand: Tails Installer now creates bigger system partitions on larger sticks (see the Tails 3.2 changelog). So I suggest you re-install or clone’n’install from Tails 3.2+ to a larger qcow2 device (more than 16GB and you’ll get the maximum size) and then you’ll have to manually upgrade much less often :)