On 2024-07-19 14:32:28 +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > On Friday, 19 July 2024 13:08:50 CEST Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > When upgrading the firmware: > > > > [...] > > Setting up firmware-intel-graphics (20240610-1) ... > > Setting up firmware-iwlwifi (20240610-1) ... > > Setting up firmware-misc-nonfree (20240610-1) ... > > Setting up firmware-nvidia-graphics (20240610-1) ... > > Setting up firmware-intel-misc (20240610-1) ... > > Setting up firmware-mediatek (20240610-1) ... > > Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.142) ... > > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.9.9-amd64 > > zstd: error 70 : Write error : cannot write block : No space left on device > > If you do not need all that firmware, try removing the ones you > don't need. Especially if you don't need nvidia-graphics firmware, > remove that because that is BIG (and the reason it got split out > from misc-nonfree). It's a RECOMMENDS, so you can remove it (if you > don't need it).
The graphics card is a Nvidia one, so I probably need this firmware. In any case, the upgrade should work for any user, including when all these packages are needed. > On Friday, 19 July 2024 13:08:50 CEST Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > This is wrong. There's plenty of space: > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > ... > > 456M 243M 189M 57% /boot > > While generating the initramfs it needs a LOT more space then what's needed > when the generation completes successfully. It's all the uncompressed files + > the size of the compressed archived/initramfs. > When done, it can remove all the uncompressed files. But it would be silly to use the /boot partition (which is typically small) for storing the temporary uncompressed files. Note that https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apcs01.en.html does not recommend anything for the /boot partition. https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apcs05.en.html says "25–50MB should suffice" (though this is probably not sufficient for most uses). https://linuxhint.com/boot-partition-size-debian/ says 256 MB / 512 MB for Debian 11. Mine has 512 MB (more that 10 times the recommended 25–50MB). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
