From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D499E139083 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2017 10:18:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 03C28E0F8E; Tue, 5 Dec 2017 10:18:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx07-00178001.pphosted.com (mx07-00178001.pphosted.com [62.209.51.94]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 79F7EE0F56 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2017 10:18:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pps.filterd (m0046668.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx07-.pphosted.com (8.16.0.21/8.16.0.21) with SMTP id vB5A9Jx8012899 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2017 11:18:45 +0100 Received: from beta.dmz-eu.st.com (beta.dmz-eu.st.com [164.129.1.35]) by mx07-00178001.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2ekjh1xd0y-1 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 05 Dec 2017 11:18:45 +0100 Received: from zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (zeta.dmz-eu.st.com [164.129.230.9]) by beta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 45B3838 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2017 10:18:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from Webmail-eu.st.com (sfhdag7node2.st.com [10.75.127.20]) by zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 09FFE28EF for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2017 10:18:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [10.50.186.1] (10.75.127.49) by SFHDAG7NODE2.st.com (10.75.127.20) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1347.2; Tue, 5 Dec 2017 11:18:43 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change To: References: <1955971.eH3XJlyHHK@dell_xps> <48a56eed-833e-cfaa-45d6-2a489970e6df@gmail.com> <20171205031906.3550eb14@hal9000.localdomain> <6393394.N2UFGrvOdG@dell_xps> From: Raffaele Belardi Message-ID: <1201462f-c790-c2f8-c4ee-d49625aa3f49@st.com> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 11:21:49 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.4.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6393394.N2UFGrvOdG@dell_xps> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.75.127.49] X-ClientProxiedBy: SFHDAG7NODE2.st.com (10.75.127.20) To SFHDAG7NODE2.st.com (10.75.127.20) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2017-12-05_03:,, signatures=0 X-Archives-Salt: 357eb7eb-882b-419c-b3b5-2e0b456468ed X-Archives-Hash: fa96c3bcf11279acbed03b1503cb1b87 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