kernel-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64 needs 219KB on the /boot filesystem

[Steven Stern]

On 03/10/2010 01:20 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Aioanei Rares <fedora.listen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>   installing package kernel-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64 needs 219KB on the
>>>>>>> /boot filesystem
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> yum install yum-utils
>>>>>> package-cleanup --oldkernels
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks to all. I had already removed all old kernels. My /boot
>>>>> directory looks like the following:
>>>>>
>>>>> # dir /boot
>>>>> config-2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64         lost+found
>>>>> efi
>>>>>  System.map-2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64
>>>>> grub                                   upgrade
>>>>> initramfs-2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64.img  vmlinuz-2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64
>>>>> #
>>>>>
>>>>> Any further ideas? How can I increase the size of /boot?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What does 'df -h' has to say?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> The following, Aioanei:
>>> # df -h
>>> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>> /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
>>>                       457G  285G  149G  66% /
>>> tmpfs                 1.6G  844K  1.6G   1% /dev/shm
>>> /dev/sdb1             194M  168M   27M  87% /boot
>>> #
>>
>> You DID clean up the old kernels, right? Do you have hand-compiled ones as
>> well or what is taking 168 MB of space from your /boot ?
> 
> Yes, I did clean up the old kernels. Please, see the following:
> 
> # dir -l /boot/
> total 18337
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root   101134 2010-02-27 09:40 config-2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64
> drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root     1024 2009-06-10 01:07 efi
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root     1024 2010-03-10 17:41 grub
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 12870846 2010-03-06 11:18
> initramfs-2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64.img
> drwx------. 2 root root    12288 2009-06-10 00:49 lost+found
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  2098865 2010-02-27 09:40
> System.map-2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root     1024 2009-11-18 00:28 upgrade
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  3603328 2010-02-27 09:40
> vmlinuz-2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64
> #
> 
> Paul

I don't think you need the upgrade directory. Did you upgrade in place
from FC11 to FC12?  It may be left over from that.

-- 
-- Steve