Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No room left on /boot

On 03/06/2017 12:05 AM, Kai Krakow wrote:
> Am Sun, 5 Mar 2017 14:33:03 -0700
> schrieb thelma@×××××××××××.com:
>
>> After upgrading my machine. I rebooted, everything went as planned.
>> So I decided to upgrade to a newer kernel.  I was using:
>> linux-3.10.7-gentoo-r1
>>
>> and decided to switch to:
>> linux-4.9.6-gentoo-r1
>>
>> I've done kernel upgrade many, many times so it was a routine
>> procedure. When I re-booted the last thing on the screen were letter:
>>
>> "GRUB" and blank screen, not even a kernel selection.
>> I scramble, boot strap the system and copied two file in /boot/
>> kernel-old --> kernel-current
>> System.map-old --> System.map-current
>>
>> I was under impression that something is wrong with the current
>> (newest kernel). But it seems to me I run out of room on the /boot
>> partition.
>>
>> ll -h /boot/
>> total 17M
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    1 Dec 17  2011 boot -> .
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 109K Mar  5 10:20 config-current
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  90K Mar  5 10:13 config-old
>> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1.0K Mar  5 11:48 grub
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.5M Mar  5 11:03 kernel-current
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.5M Mar  5 10:12 kernel-old
>> drwx------ 2 root root  12K Dec 17  2011 lost+found
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.9M Mar  5 11:03 System.map-current
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.9M Mar  5 10:12 System.map-old
>>
>> df -h
>> /dev/sda1        30M   29M     0 100% /boot
>
> Please have a look a lost+found and clear the contents. 12k size for a
> directory node that should be empty looks a bit too big to me.
>
> But I recommend to bump that size of the partition up, really. 32M is
> so 1990s.

It is empty.  I can delete the dir. but it will not gain me much space.
I've move the *-old to a root dir not know and copied just new kernel to
/boot

ll -alh /boot/lost+found/
total 13K
drwx------ 2 root root  12K Dec 17  2011 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1.0K Mar  5 17:20 ..

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Thelma