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Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2020-11-25, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:30:46 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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>>>>> If I can get rid of the plain grub, that would free up some space. |
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>>>>> The grub2 directory isn't as big but still wouldn't hurt. |
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>>>> GRUB2 uses /boot/grub here, I suspect /boot/grub2 might be the surplus |
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>>>> one, but check the timestamps. |
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>>> Well, grub2 shows the latest change. Plain grub shows older changes. |
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>>> Most things in plain grub shows a date of April 2019. Things in grub2 |
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>>> are 2013 except for grub.cfg which shows June 2020. That is likely |
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>>> about the time I rebuilt my last kernel, or somewhere close to that |
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>>> anyway. Sort of confusing. |
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>>> |
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>>> Just wondering if leaving that alone may be best. ;-) |
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>> Rename one of the directories and see if you can still boot :) |
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> That may not be a valid test. If grub is using a blocklist to locate |
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> secondary files, renaming the directory that contains those files |
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> won't bother grub at all. Even rm'ing the files and directory might |
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> not cause problems until the disk blocks of interest get reused by new |
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> files. |
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> Grant |
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Great. I don't know if I can remove them and boot normal or not. :/ I |
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guess I'll leave them for now. Maybe I can create a chroot and see what |
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it looks like after I install grub2??? I got equery to list the files |
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grub installs but it doesn't show anything being put in /boot. I |
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wonder, if I remove all but grub.cfg, would installing it again, like |
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after a kernel upgrade, would install what is needed again??? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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