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From: Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: /boot without space.
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:56:13
Message-Id: 4709824.x3HDy7UerS@kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] /boot without space. by Ricardo Bevilacqua
1 Ricardo Bevilacqua <rus.spes@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > Here I just have ~7Mb.
4 > Inside /boot/grub I have much less than 1Mb.
5 >
6 > Since the boot partition has 40Mb, why does my system say that is full
7 > if I only see less than 8Mb?
8 >
9 > ////////////////////
10 > tux grub # df -h | grep boot
11 > /dev/hdc1 40M 40M 0 100% /boot
12 > ////////////////////
13
14 Don't use ext3 for /boot - there's just no need for a journal on
15 /boot, as you'll VERY rarely write to it. For boot, the journal
16 is just a waste - a waste of 32m, to be exact. Combined with
17 your ~7Mb, this gives 40m.
18
19 Cheers,
20
21 Alexander Skwar
22
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