On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 09:44:31PM -0700, Stuart McGraw wrote:
>
> 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.
pgpUTdZVWDfLu.pgp
Description: PGP signature
--
users mailing list
users@lists.fedoraproject.org
To unsubscribe or change subscriptio
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,
edit
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
>
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 vanilla ext4 partitions
not lv
On 09/11/2010 12:09 PM, Tod Thomas wrote:
> I need to upgrade to Fedora 13 but my boot partition is too small (200
> MB) and it needs to be at least 500 MB. The boot partition is
> followed by an LVM volume goup composed of a 145 GB root LV and a 5GB
> swap LV. How can I 'safely' decrease the s
On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 15:27 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote:
> On 09/11/2010 08:52 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> > Tod,
> >
> > Michael Chronenworth posted a simple solution to preupgrade's /boot
> > space problem. He moved install.img (148MB) from /boot to a thumb drive.
> > When anaconda doe
On 09/11/2010 08:52 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 12:09 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote:
>
>> I need to upgrade to Fedora 13 but my boot partition is too small (200
>> MB) and it needs to be at least 500 MB. The boot partition is followed
>> by an LVM volume goup composed o
On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 12:09 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote:
> I need to upgrade to Fedora 13 but my boot partition is too small (200
> MB) and it needs to be at least 500 MB. The boot partition is followed
> by an LVM volume goup composed of a 145 GB root LV and a 5GB swap LV.
> How can I 'safely' de
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:31 PM, M A Young wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Tod Thomas wrote:
>
>> I need to upgrade to Fedora 13 but my boot partition is too small (200 MB)
>> and it needs to be at least 500 MB. The boot partition is followed by an LVM
>> volume goup composed of a 145 GB root LV an
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Tod Thomas wrote:
> I need to upgrade to Fedora 13 but my boot partition is too small (200 MB)
> and it needs to be at least 500 MB. The boot partition is followed by an LVM
> volume goup composed of a 145 GB root LV and a 5GB swap LV. How can I
> 'safely' decrease the siz
I need to upgrade to Fedora 13 but my boot partition is too small (200
MB) and it needs to be at least 500 MB. The boot partition is followed
by an LVM volume goup composed of a 145 GB root LV and a 5GB swap LV.
How can I 'safely' decrease the size of the volume group and increase
the size of
18 matches
Mail list logo
