From: Raffaele Belardi <raffaele.belardi@st.com>
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 11:21:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1201462f-c790-c2f8-c4ee-d49625aa3f49@st.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6393394.N2UFGrvOdG@dell_xps>
Mick wrote:
>
> Quite inexplicable ...
>
> My kernel is 7.1M, System.map 3.4M and config is 114K. I usually leave a
> total of three kernels and associated files in my ext2 46M /boot partition and
> they all used to fit in there. I tried to install grub-0.97-r16 on this
> system a number of times, each time removing another spare kernel until I was
> left with the latest kernel and each time it failed to install completely due
> to running out of disk space.
>
> These are the contents of my old /boot/grub/ as restored from a back up:
>
> # ls -la /boot/grub/
> total 1958
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Dec 3 14:07 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Dec 3 11:58 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12506 Nov 27 2016 ascii.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5000 Nov 27 2016 ascii.pf2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 197 Feb 27 2010 default
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Feb 27 2010 device.map
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10036 Dec 10 2016 e2fs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52151 Nov 27 2016 euro.pf2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9236 Dec 10 2016 fat_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8564 Dec 10 2016 ffs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8947 Nov 27 2016 grub-mkconfig_lib
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 809 Dec 3 14:07 grub.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8564 Dec 10 2016 iso9660_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10208 Dec 10 2016 jfs_stage1_5
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 27 2010 menu.lst -> grub.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8724 Dec 10 2016 minix_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11252 Dec 10 2016 reiserfs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33856 Dec 10 2016 splash.xpm.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Dec 10 2016 stage1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118712 Dec 10 2016 stage2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118712 Dec 20 2015 stage2.old
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118712 Dec 10 2016 stage2_eltorito
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8852 Dec 10 2016 ufs2_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1363292 Nov 27 2016 unicode.pf2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8212 Dec 10 2016 vstafs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49238 Nov 27 2016 widthspec.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10874 Dec 10 2016 xfs_stage1_5
>
> Installing grub-0.97-r16 would run out of disk space while trying to copy the
> stage2 file.
>
Could it be that you ran out of inodes on the /boot partition? Have you tried
# du -i
on /boot?
raffaele
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-05 10:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-02 12:30 [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change Mick
2017-12-02 21:28 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2017-12-02 23:28 ` Mick
2017-12-03 2:11 ` Adam Carter
2017-12-02 23:33 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-12-03 1:07 ` Heiko Baums
2017-12-03 1:14 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-12-03 2:18 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-12-03 2:27 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-12-03 10:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey
2017-12-03 15:12 ` Mick
2017-12-05 1:54 ` Daniel Frey
2017-12-05 2:13 ` Daniel Frey
2017-12-05 2:15 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-12-05 3:39 ` Daniel Frey
2017-12-05 10:15 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-05 10:44 ` Tom H
2017-12-05 7:06 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2017-12-05 2:20 ` [gentoo-user] " wabe
2017-12-05 10:11 ` Mick
2017-12-05 10:21 ` Raffaele Belardi [this message]
2017-12-05 12:48 ` Mick
2017-12-06 1:58 ` wabe
2017-12-06 12:28 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-07 12:04 ` Kai Peter
2017-12-07 14:22 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-07 15:06 ` Helmut Jarausch
2017-12-07 16:51 ` Kai Peter
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