Re: [gentoo-user] Boot has no space left.

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Monday, 27 June 2022 11:03:51 BST Dale wrote:
> Guillermo García wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I was updating my gentoo install, and now it says that /boot has 0
> > bytes, however i don't know why since i never save anything in that
> > folder.
> > 
> > Any idea on what can i do?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> 
> I'd start by doing this:
> 
> du -shc /boot/* | sort -h
> 
> That will show the size of files in /boot and sort them from smallest to
> largest. It could be that you have a large number of kernels and maybe
> init thingys in there.  If so, some house cleaning may be required. 
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-) 

Also check the output of mount, or findmnt, to determine if /boot is the 
mountpoint of a partition and if it is currently mounted or not.

The /boot directory is typically where the boot manager files are installed, as 
well as the kernel & initrd images, kernel config and System.map files.

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