Thank for the responses! Howard: inodes? inodes are atomic part of the ext type file systems (and some other UNIX file systems too). I haven't ever heard of trouble because of running out of inodes. How big is the partition? Is it ext3?
On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/08/2015 04:20 PM, JMJ wrote: > >> On 03/08/2015 04:04 PM, Csaba Toth wrote: >> >>> I wonder if your boot can fill up if you have too many versions of >>> kernels. >>> >> >> That hasn't actually happened on my system, but I think it CAN happen if >> /boot is a separate partition. I usually only keep 1 or 2 kernels >> installed specifically to avoid that issue. This is one reason I was >> thinking about putting /boot back on the / partition. >> >> JMJ >> >> > The answer is "yes" as I do keep a separate boot partition (out of old > habit) and yes I do have to go clean it out periodically. In Ubuntu, the > software updater informs one rather bluntly that a kernel upgrade is not > possible for lack of space however the system is not compromised. I go > clean out the boot partition save the last two or three and then do the > software update again. No big deal. > > I recently upgraded a long time desktop system of mine from Ubuntu 10.4 to > 14.4 (he who has had bad experience with Ubuntu upgrades) and was thwarted > in a subsequent update by a lack of inodes on the / file system. I had to > go clean out the /usr/src directory for all the old linux headers that I no > longer require. Not a space issue but inodes. Learned a new twist on the > df command: df -hi. > > Howard > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
