Re: /boot too Small in F40

2024-07-02 Thread Lukas Middendorf
On 02/07/2024 10:38, Stephen Morris wrote: My / partition is on a 3TB hard disk and is using BTRFS. I've put /boot on an SSD, where I have /boot for Ubuntu, Drive C for windows and the UEFI partition, for hoped boot performance improvements. I would assume the performance difference to be not

Re: /boot too Small in F40

2024-07-02 Thread Stephen Morris
On 30/6/24 13:23, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/29/24 6:36 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, My /boot partition is 512MB, which in F39 was more than ample for 5 kernels and a rescue image, but in F40 that partition is now to small for a new rescue image to be created when a new kernel is installed

Re: /boot too Small in F40

2024-07-02 Thread Stephen Morris
On 30/6/24 23:01, George N. White III wrote: On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 10:36 PM Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, My /boot partition is 512MB, which in F39 was more than ample for 5 kernels and a rescue image, but in F40 that partition is now to small for a new rescue image to b

Re: /boot too Small in F40

2024-07-02 Thread Stephen Morris
On 1/7/24 08:27, Lukas Middendorf wrote: On 30/06/2024 03:36, Stephen Morris wrote: I've tried dropping the number of kernels retained to 4, but that still produces out of space conditions on new kernel installs with the rescue image. You can also consider disabling the rescue kernel gen

Re: /boot too Small in F40

2024-06-30 Thread Lukas Middendorf
On 30/06/2024 03:36, Stephen Morris wrote:     I've tried dropping the number of kernels retained to 4, but that still produces out of space conditions on new kernel installs with the rescue image. You can also consider disabling the rescue kernel generation. I have never had any use for it.

Re: /boot too Small in F40

2024-06-30 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 10:36 PM Stephen Morris wrote: > Hi, > My /boot partition is 512MB, which in F39 was more than ample for 5 > kernels and a rescue image, but in F40 that partition is now to small > for a new rescue image to be created when a new kernel is installed. The > rescue image

Re: /boot too Small in F40

2024-06-29 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/29/24 6:36 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,     My /boot partition is 512MB, which in F39 was more than ample for 5 kernels and a rescue image, but in F40 that partition is now to small for a new rescue image to be created when a new kernel is installed. The rescue image in F40 seems to be

/boot too Small in F40

2024-06-29 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     My /boot partition is 512MB, which in F39 was more than ample for 5 kernels and a rescue image, but in F40 that partition is now to small for a new rescue image to be created when a new kernel is installed. The rescue image in F40 seems to be around 102MB in size which is more that dou

Re: /boot too small

2024-06-04 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Chris Murphy said: > GRUB hidden boot menu feature depends on a really curious file called grubenv Just to note: boot-time grubenv modification is used for more than boot success/fail detection. Setting a default boot option during boot and setting a boot-once option (at least)

Re: /boot too small

2024-06-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, May 14, 2024, at 7:27 PM, richard emberson wrote: > Poking about I see that the default workstation disk layout: >https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/workstation-docs/disk-config/ > has /boot on a ext4 partition and everything else on btrfs. > Also, the replacement for Anaconda will

Re: /boot too small

2024-06-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, May 14, 2024, at 2:12 PM, Tim via users wrote: > On Tue, 2024-05-14 at 08:27 -0700, richard emberson wrote: >> Back on 05/03/2024 I posted the question: >>    "How to increase size of /boot partition" >> I had the same problem. >> >> As was noted by some, I had not upgraded for a long, l

Re: /boot too small

2024-05-14 Thread Michal Schorm
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 1:45 AM Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Michal Schorm said: > > On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 8:13 PM Tim via users > > wrote: > > > Does /boot still need to be its own partition, these days? > > > /boot/efi has to be, but that's mapped into /boot, already. > > > > Defin

Re: /boot too small

2024-05-14 Thread Michal Schorm
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 1:29 AM richard emberson wrote: > Poking about I see that the default workstation disk layout: >https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/workstation-docs/disk-config/ > has /boot on a ext4 partition and everything else on btrfs. > Also, the replacement for Anaconda will not

Re: /boot too small

2024-05-14 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Michal Schorm said: > On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 8:13 PM Tim via users > wrote: > > Does /boot still need to be its own partition, these days? > > /boot/efi has to be, but that's mapped into /boot, already. > > Definitely not. It does for a variety of cases, such as an encrypted

Re: /boot too small

2024-05-14 Thread Dave Close
Michal Schorm wrote: >The best *trivial* setup and usage should be having everything on >BTRFS (except EFI, as you said), >and maintain some amount of snapshots you can revert to anytime in >case of any issues. I look forward to a complete set of instructions for this approach in the Fedora docum

Re: /boot too small

2024-05-14 Thread richard emberson
Poking about I see that the default workstation disk layout: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/workstation-docs/disk-config/ has /boot on a ext4 partition and everything else on btrfs. Also, the replacement for Anaconda will not happen until Fedora 41: https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth

Re: /boot too small

2024-05-14 Thread Michal Schorm
On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 8:13 PM Tim via users wrote: > Does /boot still need to be its own partition, these days? > /boot/efi has to be, but that's mapped into /boot, already. Definitely not. And it actually creates all kinds of problems when separated. The best *trivial* setup and usage should

Re: /boot too small

2024-05-14 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2024-05-14 at 08:27 -0700, richard emberson wrote: > Back on 05/03/2024 I posted the question: >    "How to increase size of /boot partition" > I had the same problem. > > As was noted by some, I had not upgraded for a long, long time: >    "This type of layout and partition sizes is ancie

Re: /boot too small

2024-05-14 Thread richard emberson
Back on 05/03/2024 I posted the question: "How to increase size of /boot partition" I had the same problem. As was noted by some, I had not upgraded for a long, long time: "This type of layout and partition sizes is ancient. /tmp isn't even a partition now." So, I decided to re-install. I

Re: /boot too small

2024-05-14 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
Note sure this with post to list with the Bold marked text, but sending it to your email as well. If list rejects it will repost without Rich Text, and Perhaps mark lines with (B) that were bold?? Good Luck. A couple of things I would recommend. Have an old Lenovo R61 notebook that also has a 5

Re: /boot too small

2024-05-14 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 3:38 AM Patrick Dupre via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Hello, > > During an update, I get > > Error Summary > - > Disk Requirements: >At least 7MB more space needed on the /boot filesystem. > > > How can I fix it without currently resizing

Re: /boot too small

2024-05-14 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
df -h /boot Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6       488M  445M  6.5M  99% /boot     Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at 10:02 AM From: "Barry Scott" To: "Community support for Fedora users" Cc: "Patrick Dupre" Subject: Re: /boot too small

Re: /boot too small

2024-05-14 Thread Barry Scott
> On 14 May 2024, at 08:38, Patrick Dupre via users > wrote: > > How can I fix it without currently resizing /boot? How big is your /boot? What does this report? df -h /boot If its 1GB then that should be lots of space and its worth checking where the space has been used up. Have a look wi

Re: /boot too small

2024-05-14 Thread John Pilkington
On 14/05/2024 08:54, Michal Schorm wrote: Hi, for an immediate workaround, remove the oldest kernel. Here are the steps together with an example output: 1) List installed kernel-core packages: # rpm -qa | grep kernel-core | sort kernel-core-6.8.4-200.fc39.x86_64 kernel-core-6.8.6-200.fc39.x86_

Re: /boot too small

2024-05-14 Thread Michal Schorm
Hi, for an immediate workaround, remove the oldest kernel. Here are the steps together with an example output: 1) List installed kernel-core packages: # rpm -qa | grep kernel-core | sort kernel-core-6.8.4-200.fc39.x86_64 kernel-core-6.8.6-200.fc39.x86_64 kernel-core-6.8.7-200.fc39.x86_64 2) Re

/boot too small

2024-05-14 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
Hello, During an update, I get Error Summary - Disk Requirements: At least 7MB more space needed on the /boot filesystem. How can I fix it without currently resizing /boot? Thank drwx--. 5 root root 4096 May 14 08:36 grub2 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root45 Mar 7 13:24