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From: Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: No room left on /boot
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 07:05:51
Message-Id: 20170306080521.0861d8cc@jupiter.sol.kaishome.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] No room left on /boot by thelma@sys-concept.com
1 Am Sun, 5 Mar 2017 14:33:03 -0700
2 schrieb thelma@×××××××××××.com:
3
4 > After upgrading my machine. I rebooted, everything went as planned.
5 > So I decided to upgrade to a newer kernel. I was using:
6 > linux-3.10.7-gentoo-r1
7 >
8 > and decided to switch to:
9 > linux-4.9.6-gentoo-r1
10 >
11 > I've done kernel upgrade many, many times so it was a routine
12 > procedure. When I re-booted the last thing on the screen were letter:
13 >
14 > "GRUB" and blank screen, not even a kernel selection.
15 > I scramble, boot strap the system and copied two file in /boot/
16 > kernel-old --> kernel-current
17 > System.map-old --> System.map-current
18 >
19 > I was under impression that something is wrong with the current
20 > (newest kernel). But it seems to me I run out of room on the /boot
21 > partition.
22 >
23 > ll -h /boot/
24 > total 17M
25 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Dec 17 2011 boot -> .
26 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 109K Mar 5 10:20 config-current
27 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 90K Mar 5 10:13 config-old
28 > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1.0K Mar 5 11:48 grub
29 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.5M Mar 5 11:03 kernel-current
30 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.5M Mar 5 10:12 kernel-old
31 > drwx------ 2 root root 12K Dec 17 2011 lost+found
32 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.9M Mar 5 11:03 System.map-current
33 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.9M Mar 5 10:12 System.map-old
34 >
35 > df -h
36 > /dev/sda1 30M 29M 0 100% /boot
37
38 Please have a look a lost+found and clear the contents. 12k size for a
39 directory node that should be empty looks a bit too big to me.
40
41 But I recommend to bump that size of the partition up, really. 32M is
42 so 1990s.
43
44 --
45 Regards,
46 Kai
47
48 Replies to list-only preferred.

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