Information about required disk space when using yum update

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Disk space should be right-sized to reduce storage costs
  • During a planned downtime, disk space expansions can't always be performed quickly enough due to need to follow, sometimes slow, internal processes
  • Is there a way to calculate how much cache space, both for metadata and packages, a yum update will need before executing it so that /var/cache/yum can be tightly-sized?
  • This will help prevent "no space left on device" issues happening

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7

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