[sf-lug] /boot partition was too small

[Michael Paoli]

> From: "Bobbie Sellers" <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com>
> Subject: [sf-lug] SF-LUG meeting notes for Monday June 17, 2019
> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 21:18:30 -0700

>     Then John S. came in and was having a problem that
> was simple but not so simple of solution for someone
> as unskilled as me.  He was having problems installing
> updates.   At one point in a test we learned that the
> /boot partition was too small and we spent a lot of time
> working on that and did not achieve a reliable result.
>     I was very unhappy about that last.

Hmmm, I'm curious, how small was it, and what distro, and was it
appropriately cleaned of unneeded cruft?

$ echo $(lsb_release -d; uname -m); df -h /boot
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9.9 (stretch) x86_64
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1        228M   51M  165M  24% /boot
$ ssh -anx -4 balug-sf-lug-v2.balug.org. 'echo $(lsb_release -d; uname  
-m); df -h /boot'
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9.9 (stretch) x86_64
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1       244M   37M  197M  16% /boot
$