The problem was the amount of disk space needed for the upgrade. To free up the necessary I used "yum" to look for duplicates. Found 4 copies of OpenOffice and few more. Moved /usr/java to another disk and created a symbolic link. The upgrade went pretty quick. Moved the java back to /usr/java. In a week or so I will repartition the disk and leave a spare G in /usr to make future upgrades easy. There were a lot of opinions and all were on the mark but differed in the implementation of a solution. One thing that would be useful for people with a disk space problem is a list of partition sizes. Am not a real fan of LVM. Thank You Larry Linder