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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: imminent /boot problem.
From:       Samuel Sieb <samuel () sieb ! net>
Date:       2024-02-23 3:46:14
Message-ID: 27e85095-e7c8-479f-8efd-91610ead301b () sieb ! net
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On 2/22/24 19:32, home user wrote:
> On 2/22/24 4:56 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>> On 2/22/24 10:21, home user wrote:
>>> While doing my weekly "dnf upgrade" a little while ago, I got the 
>>> following pop-up at the top of the screen"
>>> ------
>>> Low Disk Space on"boot"
>>> The volume "boot" has only 20.9 MB disk space remaining.
>>>
>>> I'm only keeping 2 old kernels now.  I did not do anything to shrink 
>>> /boot.  What has grown so much recently?  What do I delete?
>>>
>>> Here's what's in /boot:
>>> -----
>>> -bash.2[~]: ls -alS /boot
>>> total 414860
>>> -rw-------.  1 root root 116291735 Jun  1  2023 
>>> initramfs-0-rescue-70857e3fb05849139515e66a3fdc6b38.img
>>> -rw-------.  1 root root  74107910 Feb  8 12:15 
>>> initramfs-6.7.3-100.fc38.x86_64.img
>>> -rw-------.  1 root root  74063151 Feb 22 10:15 
>>> initramfs-6.7.5-100.fc38.x86_64.img
>>> -rw-------.  1 root root  74060383 Feb 15 13:15 
>>> initramfs-6.7.4-100.fc38.x86_64.img
>>> -rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root  14806856 Feb  4 17:00 
>>> vmlinuz-6.7.4-100.fc38.x86_64
>>> -rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root  14786376 Jan 30 17:00 
>>> vmlinuz-6.7.3-100.fc38.x86_64
>>> -rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root  14786376 Feb 16 17:00 
>>> vmlinuz-6.7.5-100.fc38.x86_64
>>> -rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root  14329896 Jun  1  2023 
>>> vmlinuz-0-rescue-70857e3fb05849139515e66a3fdc6b38
>>
>> You think you're only keeping 2 kernels, but you definitely have a 
>> full 3 kernels there (plus the rescue one).
> 
> No, I don't think I'm only keeping 2 kernels.  I'm keeping 2 old 
> kernels.  There's also the current kernel and the rescue.

Sorry, I misinterpreted it.  You're keeping 2 *old* kernels and I read 
it as keeping 2 kernels *total*.  If you change the installonly_limit=3 
to 2 in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf then it will only keep 1 old kernel automatically.
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