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From: Ant on 26 Feb 2010 04:01 On 2/25/2010 10:18 PM PT, Thomas E. Maleshafske typed: > Just a curiosity how many images do you have sitting in your boot > directory? You may just need to delete a bunch of the old ones? I already removed all the old Kernels long ago. Hence v2.6.30 got really big and I am no longer able to install over it with a newer one. This is what I have now in my /boot: # ls -all /boot total 22028 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 2010-02-21 08:27 . drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 1024 2010-01-22 10:51 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103541 2009-12-03 21:08 config-2.6.30-2-686 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 6144 2010-01-26 07:43 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9833276 2010-02-21 08:27 initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9363480 2010-01-22 08:57 initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686.bak -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1125733 2009-12-03 21:08 System.map-2.6.30-2-686 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2024880 2009-12-03 21:07 vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-686 :( -- "It's kind of an insane case ... 6,000 ants dressed up as rice and robbed a Chinese restaurant." --Steven Wright /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil./Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: philpi(a)earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant(a)zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
From: Ant on 26 Feb 2010 04:16 On 2/25/2010 8:22 PM PT, unruh typed: >>> If that does not by you enough room ( it should) transfer your / partion >>> to your current /others partition ( /dev/hda12) >>> >>> At present, I would move all the little bit of stuff in /other away >>> somewhere else, erase /others, copy the / partition to the /other, and >>> set up lilo/grub to point to /dev/hda12 as your boot partition. >>> >>> At present add menu entries to lilo/grub for /dev/hda12 keeping th >>> eones you already have, reboot, and choose the new ones, and make sure >>> everything works. If it does, remove the stuff in your current / >>> partition. >> >> So I can have Grub2 (not Lilo and legacy v1 since Debian gave me v2 a >> few months ago) boot to another partition (/dev/hda12)? I didn't know >> that. I thought MBR stuff needed to be in the first area or something. >> Note that this is an old machine with old IDE/ATA drives (e.g., 80 GB). > > Linux can boot to any partition, and any drive AFAIK. > MBR is something entirely different. The MBR is the very first sector on > the disk, which the bios can load into memory and run. It contains the > very first part of the bootloader. The program in the MBR then uses the > bios to download a set of sectors from the disk and jump to their start. > > The MBR is NOT part of any partition, It is a sector at the beginning of > the disk that no operating system makes a part of its own filesystem. Ah cool. So I would tell Grub2 (do I assume that's MBR?) to look in /others as well. I will have to figure out how to tell Grub2 to do that. Looking at /boot/grub/grub.cfg was very confusing and complex, but I did see its hda references. However, it had a warning note that said not to edit this file since it was autogenerated from /etc/grub.d and /etc/default/grub. I looked at those two places, and very confused what to edit if I want to point to another partition (/dev/hda12). Still another problem with this neat method/idea: How do I tell apt-get to install the newer Kernel version into /others instead of overwriting the 2.6.30 in /boot? It looks like installing linux-image-2.6-686 package will overwrite my current running 2.6.30-2-686 package. Here is what apt-get said: # apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc6-i686 linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 Suggested packages: linux-doc-2.6.32 The following NEW packages will be installed: libc6-i686 linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 The following packages will be upgraded: linux-image-2.6-686 1 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 126 not upgraded. Need to get 27.5MB of archives. After this operation, 78.7MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Heh, this is getting a bit complex and messy! :/ -- "Don't step on ants... they're people too." --a quote from ANTZ movie. /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil./Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: philpi(a)earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant(a)zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
From: david on 26 Feb 2010 05:50 On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:50:04 -0800, Ant rearranged some electrons to say: > Hello. > > My very old Debian/Linux workstation/desktop box (first installed it on > 9/24/2004 and kept it updated daily and only had one reinstall > (accidently ran fsck without unmounting a few years ago) -- still > amazing that it runs today) is unable to install the latest Kernel > (v2.6.32) Debian package due to free limited disk space in / (actually > /boot) partition: > > $ df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 280003 173227 92320 66% / tmpfs > 1297724 0 1297724 0% /lib/init/rw udev > 10240 264 9976 3% /dev tmpfs 1297724 > 0 1297724 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda5 14421344 > 2759732 10929052 21% /home /dev/hda6 4807056 3620424 > 942448 80% /usr /dev/hda7 964500 721228 194276 79% > /var /dev/hda8 964500 17676 897828 2% /tmp > /dev/hda9 4807056 206076 4356796 5% /usr/local > /dev/hda11 47383396 19522168 25454292 44% /extra > /dev/hda12 918322 16452 852874 2% /others > > (parted) p > Model: ST380011A (ide) > Disk /dev/hda: 80.0GB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos > > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags > 1 32.3kB 296MB 296MB primary ext3 2 296MB 80.0GB > 79.7GB extended 5 296MB 15.3GB 15.0GB logical ext3 6 > 15.3GB 20.3GB 5001MB logical ext3 7 20.3GB 21.3GB 1003MB > logical ext3 8 21.3GB 22.3GB 1003MB logical ext3 9 > 22.3GB 27.3GB 5001MB logical ext3 > 12 27.3GB 28.3GB 1003MB logical ext3 10 28.3GB 30.7GB > 2418MB logical linux-swap(v1) 11 30.7GB 80.0GB 49.3GB logical > ext3 > > http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6544/screenshot1qs.png for a screen > capture of GParted. > > How can I resize my /'s /boot to get more free disk space without > getting another bigger HDD to copy over or reinstalling from scratch? > Can I use KNOPPIX v6.2.1 to do it or is it not possible? I used to use > PowerQuest's PartitionMagic for DOS and Windows to resize, but I wasn't > sure if this method works in Linux too. > > Thank you in advnace. :) You don't have a separate /boot partition. You created it in root, it looks like. (You shouldn't have done that). You could create a separate partition for other stuff you have in root, / lib for example) and move stuff out of root.
From: Arnold on 26 Feb 2010 07:47 Hello! You need 94 MB? 2296 kb in /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 108 kb in /boot/config-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 1584 kb in /boot/System.map-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 94020 kb in /lib/modules/2.6.32-trunk-amd64 60 kb in /usr/share/bug/linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 128 kb in /usr/share/doc/linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 Regards Arnold Ant schrieb: > Hello. > > My very old Debian/Linux workstation/desktop box (first installed it > on 9/24/2004 and kept it updated daily and only had one reinstall > (accidently ran fsck without unmounting a few years ago) -- still > amazing that it runs today) is unable to install the latest Kernel > (v2.6.32) Debian package due to free limited disk space in / (actually > /boot) partition: > > $ df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 280003 173227 92320 66% / > tmpfs 1297724 0 1297724 0% /lib/init/rw > udev 10240 264 9976 3% /dev > tmpfs 1297724 0 1297724 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda5 14421344 2759732 10929052 21% /home > /dev/hda6 4807056 3620424 942448 80% /usr > /dev/hda7 964500 721228 194276 79% /var > /dev/hda8 964500 17676 897828 2% /tmp > /dev/hda9 4807056 206076 4356796 5% /usr/local > /dev/hda11 47383396 19522168 25454292 44% /extra > /dev/hda12 918322 16452 852874 2% /others > > (parted) p > Model: ST380011A (ide) > Disk /dev/hda: 80.0GB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partition Table: msdos > > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags > 1 32.3kB 296MB 296MB primary ext3 > 2 296MB 80.0GB 79.7GB extended > 5 296MB 15.3GB 15.0GB logical ext3 > 6 15.3GB 20.3GB 5001MB logical ext3 > 7 20.3GB 21.3GB 1003MB logical ext3 > 8 21.3GB 22.3GB 1003MB logical ext3 > 9 22.3GB 27.3GB 5001MB logical ext3 > 12 27.3GB 28.3GB 1003MB logical ext3 > 10 28.3GB 30.7GB 2418MB logical linux-swap(v1) > 11 30.7GB 80.0GB 49.3GB logical ext3 > > http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6544/screenshot1qs.png for a screen > capture of GParted. > > How can I resize my /'s /boot to get more free disk space without > getting another bigger HDD to copy over or reinstalling from scratch? > Can I use KNOPPIX v6.2.1 to do it or is it not possible? I used to use > PowerQuest's PartitionMagic for DOS and Windows to resize, but I > wasn't sure if this method works in Linux too. > > Thank you in advnace. :)
From: unruh on 26 Feb 2010 14:04
["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.] On 2010-02-26, david <none(a)nospam.com> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:50:04 -0800, Ant rearranged some electrons to say: > >> Hello. >> >> My very old Debian/Linux workstation/desktop box (first installed it on >> 9/24/2004 and kept it updated daily and only had one reinstall >> (accidently ran fsck without unmounting a few years ago) -- still >> amazing that it runs today) is unable to install the latest Kernel >> (v2.6.32) Debian package due to free limited disk space in / (actually >> /boot) partition: >> >> $ df >> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >> /dev/hda1 280003 173227 92320 66% / tmpfs >> 1297724 0 1297724 0% /lib/init/rw udev >> 10240 264 9976 3% /dev tmpfs 1297724 >> 0 1297724 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda5 14421344 >> 2759732 10929052 21% /home /dev/hda6 4807056 3620424 >> 942448 80% /usr /dev/hda7 964500 721228 194276 79% >> /var /dev/hda8 964500 17676 897828 2% /tmp >> /dev/hda9 4807056 206076 4356796 5% /usr/local >> /dev/hda11 47383396 19522168 25454292 44% /extra >> /dev/hda12 918322 16452 852874 2% /others >> >> (parted) p >> Model: ST380011A (ide) >> Disk /dev/hda: 80.0GB >> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos >> >> Number Start End Size Type File system Flags >> 1 32.3kB 296MB 296MB primary ext3 2 296MB 80.0GB >> 79.7GB extended 5 296MB 15.3GB 15.0GB logical ext3 6 >> 15.3GB 20.3GB 5001MB logical ext3 7 20.3GB 21.3GB 1003MB >> logical ext3 8 21.3GB 22.3GB 1003MB logical ext3 9 >> 22.3GB 27.3GB 5001MB logical ext3 >> 12 27.3GB 28.3GB 1003MB logical ext3 10 28.3GB 30.7GB >> 2418MB logical linux-swap(v1) 11 30.7GB 80.0GB 49.3GB logical >> ext3 >> >> http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6544/screenshot1qs.png for a screen >> capture of GParted. >> >> How can I resize my /'s /boot to get more free disk space without >> getting another bigger HDD to copy over or reinstalling from scratch? >> Can I use KNOPPIX v6.2.1 to do it or is it not possible? I used to use >> PowerQuest's PartitionMagic for DOS and Windows to resize, but I wasn't >> sure if this method works in Linux too. >> >> Thank you in advnace. :) > > You don't have a separate /boot partition. You created it in root, it > looks like. (You shouldn't have done that). Why not? > > You could create a separate partition for other stuff you have in root, / > lib for example) and move stuff out of root. AAARGH no. /lib MUST be in the / partition. It contains all the modules for the kernel which must be mounted for bootup of the kernel, and the only thing mounted by the boot script is the / partition. But he claims to have 90MB in the / partition free, which should be lots to load a new kernel. I thus have no idea what is going on. He needs to post the EXACT error message he gets when he tries to install the new kernel. |