Re: [gentoo-user] /boot without space.

["Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.net>]

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On Thursday 21 June 2007 16:11:42 Ricardo Bevilacqua wrote:
> I was installing a boot splash when i got this message
>
> //////////////////////
> o Creating initramfs image..
> mv: writing «/boot/fbsplash-livecd-2007.0-1024x768»: There is no space
> left on the device.
> //////////////////////
>
> I was surprised so I checked the /boot partition

Try using:
du -xa /boot | sort -rn
as root to locate the space hogs, which may be hidden files.  (du does "lie" 
sometimes though, because the assumptions it makes about file size aren't 
always true.)

You might also fire up filelight and/or the file size view of konqueror 
(either would also need to be as root) if you prefer a graphical view.  (They 
will suffer from the same limitations as du, but their assumptions my be 
different.)

Oh, I'm not sure while filesystem you are using, but reiserfs reserves some 
space for the block usage bitmap and misc. metadata, and that takes up a 
number of MB.

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