On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 09:44:31PM -0700, Stuart McGraw wrote:
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> Below for comparison is my (pre-upgrade) /boot partition. I am
> still curious about the *-0-rescue-* kernel. It is quite large.
> Is it really necessary?
>
> ~# du -s /boot/*
> 2895/boot/System.map-3.17.4-301.fc21.x86_64
>
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Stuart McGraw writes:
>
>> Also, I hadn't realized the boot partition could be anywhere,
>
>
> There could be some limitations with large hard drives, and some BIOSes.
That's a good point, the firmware can be a limiting factor and make it
Stuart McGraw writes:
Also, I hadn't realized the boot partition could be anywhere,
There could be some limitations with large hard drives, and some BIOSes.
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On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Stuart McGraw wrote:
> Also, I hadn't realized the boot partition could be anywhere,
> I somehow thought it had to be the first partition.
GRUB2 can find and load /boot/vmlinuz+initramfs pretty much anywhere:
primary or extended partitions, on an LVM LV (the insta
On 02/15/2015 02:31 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
On 15.02.2015, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Your only practical option is to remove the oldest kernel, which should
allow you to update, and change the installonly_limit setting in
/etc/yum.conf
Yep! And maybe he can live with two kernels installed. On my
On 15.02.2015, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Your only practical option is to remove the oldest kernel, which should
> allow you to update, and change the installonly_limit setting in
> /etc/yum.conf
Yep! And maybe he can live with two kernels installed. On my system, they take
less than 200 MB. Coul
Stuart McGraw writes:
I made a mistake when I installed my Fedora 21 system -- I
specified a /boot partition size of 200MB rather than the
recommended 500MB -- and didn't notice my mistake until
I had too much time invested in the install to redo it to
correct the size. (I am using plain vanill
I'm not sure what all is in your /boot but kernel+initramfs only takes
~25MB per kernel. So I don't know how you're running out of space with
only three kernels. Anyway, from easiest and least risky, to hardest
and most risky:
a. Keep only two kernels at a time instead of three. If using yum,
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On 15.02.2015, Stuart McGraw wrote:
> When I tried to do a yum upgrade today (which includes a
> new kernel) it failed with a message that my boot partition
> space was short by 6MB.
> What can I do to fix or mitigate this problem?
Remove all kernels except one which you have verified to be bo
On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 11:12:17 -0700 Stuart McGraw wrote:
> I made a mistake when I installed my Fedora 21 system -- I
> specified a /boot partition size of 200MB rather than the
> recommended 500MB -- and didn't notice my mistake until
> I had too much time invested in the install to redo it to
>
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