problem updating glibc because of partition size

I have a low spec server and requested partitioning which would free up as much space as possible to hold backup files.

The only things I need or want to run on the server are ssh, ftp, and tux.

The mistake I made as a linux newbie was that I didn't realize how much free space is needed to update glibc and glibc-common...

Code: 
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2               497861     86490    385667  19% /
/dev/hda1                46636     13490     30738  31% /boot
none                     30824         0     30824   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda5               202220    105079     86701  55% /usr
/dev/hda6              7107768   2166528   4580184  33% /var
up2date -u

Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
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RPM package conflict error. The message was:
Test install failed because of package conflicts:
installing package glibc-common-2.2.5-43 needs 59Mb on the /usr filesystem

The only two rpm's that are not updated now are glibc and glibc-common.

Any ideas?

 

 

 

 

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