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

[Steven Stern]

On 03/10/2010 01:27 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Steven Stern
> <subscribed-lists at sterndata.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
>>> #
>>>
>>
>> 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.
> 
> You sure, Steve, about that? Should I delete the upgrade directory?
> And yes, I did upgrade from F11 to F12.
> 
> Paul
Delete /boot/upgrade. It's safe to do so.

-- 
-- Steve