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On Thursday 21 June 2007 16:11:42 Ricardo Bevilacqua wrote: |
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> I was installing a boot splash when i got this message |
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> o Creating initramfs image.. |
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> mv: writing «/boot/fbsplash-livecd-2007.0-1024x768»: There is no space |
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> left on the device. |
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> I was surprised so I checked the /boot partition |
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Try using: |
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du -xa /boot | sort -rn |
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as root to locate the space hogs, which may be hidden files. (du does "lie" |
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sometimes though, because the assumptions it makes about file size aren't |
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always true.) |
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You might also fire up filelight and/or the file size view of konqueror |
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(either would also need to be as root) if you prefer a graphical view. (They |
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will suffer from the same limitations as du, but their assumptions my be |
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different.) |
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Oh, I'm not sure while filesystem you are using, but reiserfs reserves some |
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space for the block usage bitmap and misc. metadata, and that takes up a |
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number of MB. |
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