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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /boot without space.
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:51:52
Message-Id: 200706220041.34320.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] /boot without space. by Ricardo Bevilacqua
1 On Freitag, 22. Juni 2007, Ricardo Bevilacqua wrote:
2 > 2007/6/21, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@××××××××××.net>:
3 > > Try using:
4 > > du -xa /boot | sort -rn
5 > > as root to locate the space hogs, which may be hidden files. (du does
6 > > "lie" sometimes though, because the assumptions it makes about file size
7 > > aren't always true.)
8 >
9 > tux ric # du -xa /boot | sort -rn
10 > 7283 /boot
11 > 2935 /boot/gentoo-2.6.20
12 > 2903 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-gentoo-r7.old
13 > 993 /boot/System.map-2.6.20-gentoo-r7
14 > 345 /boot/grub
15 > 100 /boot/grub/stage2_eltorito
16 > 100 /boot/grub/stage2
17 > 56 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-gentoo-r7
18 > 44 /boot/config-2.6.20-gentoo-r7
19 > 36 /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
20 > 12 /boot/grub/xfs_stage1_5
21 > 12 /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5
22 > 8 /boot/grub/vstafs_stage1_5
23 > 8 /boot/grub/ufs2_stage1_5
24 > 8 /boot/grub/minix_stage1_5
25 > 8 /boot/grub/jfs_stage1_5
26 > 8 /boot/grub/iso9660_stage1_5
27 > 8 /boot/grub/ffs_stage1_5
28 > 8 /boot/grub/fat_stage1_5
29 > 8 /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5
30 > 4 /boot/grub/stage1
31 > 4 /boot/grub/grub.conf.sample
32 > 4 /boot/grub/grub.conf
33 > 4 /boot/grub/device.map
34 > 4 /boot/grub/default
35 > 0 /boot/vmlinuz
36 > 0 /boot/System.map
37 > 0 /boot/.keep
38 > 0 /boot/grub/menu.lst
39 > 0 /boot/config
40 > 0 /boot/boot
41 >
42 > Ok, this shows me every file on /boot, only ~15Mb, which is more that
43 > I had calculated before.
44 >
45 > > You might also fire up filelight and/or the file size view of konqueror
46 > > (either would also need to be as root) if you prefer a graphical view.
47 > > (They will suffer from the same limitations as du, but their assumptions
48 > > my be different.)
49 >
50 > Almost the same with a graphical view.
51 >
52 > > Oh, I'm not sure while filesystem you are using, but reiserfs reserves
53 > > some space for the block usage bitmap and misc. metadata, and that takes
54 > > up a number of MB.
55 >
56 > You might be right, but still, we have found out that the files are
57 > ~15Mb, if the partition has a size of 40Mb, is it possible that
58 > reiserfs is using almost 25Mb for storing data?
59
60 it is using per default 32mb for its journal.
61
62 The missing mb (32+15>40) comes from two facts:
63 du lies
64 and tail packing.
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