On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Chris Lumens clumens@redhat.com wrote:
CL> The fix is to make /boot larger so more kernels can fit, say, 1GB.
Doesn't Fedora have the same basic issue, though? My 500M /boot volumes are nearly half full and I don't install the kernel-debug packages.
Yep, Fedora would definitely have the same problem. I'm just curious if Fedora is going to want to solve it in some different way or what.
Maybe the dual booters with small drives might bug eye at a 1G boot partition? But in the short term (year?) I'm not expecting a Btrfs switch where /boot on Btrfs as a subvolume avoids the concern of wasted space; so if it needs to get bigger, the only different way I'm thinking of is make it 750M?
But I regularly keep 5-8 kernels including debug kernels and I'm not seeing this kind of space consumption. I've got kernel 4.5.2 nondebug and kernel+initramfs+system.map takes up 30M in /boot, and 4.6.0.rc4 debug takes up 31M. So...? Fedora uses hostonly initramfs. Is that a factor? Even if I go that route, it's only 59M for the debug kernel and its initramfs and map. I don't hit 250M with four of those, let alone 500M. What am I missing?