Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?
On Sat, May 9, 2020, at 9:10 PM, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sat, 09 May 2020 20:05:48 -0700
> "Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/mapper/debian--vg-root ext4 30G 9.9G 19G 36% /
> > /dev/sda2 ext2 248M 78M 158M 34% /boot
>
> Odd. That should be good for more than three kernels. I have:
>
> root@jhegaala:~# df /boot/
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda5 226M 92M 119M 44% /boot
> root@jhegaala:~#
>
> with three kernels.
>
> My /boot is ext4, but I doubt that makes enough difference to matter.
> My installation is not EFI. Would that make the difference?
The figures above are *after* I deleted the two previous kernel versions. So yes, there's plenty of space there when this is taken. It looks like each kernel/initrd combo takes 75-80 MB so three of them could take as much as 240 MB, just a bit beyond the space available.
Stay well and stay safe!
Rick
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