[sf-lug] /boot partition was too small

[Bobbie Sellers]

On 6/21/19 8:25 AM, Michael Paoli wrote:
>> 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
> $
>
     it was reported by df as being a total of 30 MB.  No attempt was made
to clean it.  Why it was setup so small I have no idea at the present.

     The distribution was of course PCLinuxOS64 KDE5 2019.05.

     As I mentioned I was already very tired and that led me to attempt
to do unspeakable things to the disk and its space distribution. The only
reason to remember the things done  is so that I do not do that
again.

         bliss


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