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Old 02-02-2009
/boot directory out of space
We applied updates on saturday and noted that we have used 97% of our /boot directory. How can I tell what files i can keep or get rid of in this directory? or how can I increase the size of this partition.



Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 9)
2.4.21-57.ELsmp

Thank you in advance.
# 2  
Old 02-02-2009
How big is your /boot directory?

You just need to remove the old kernels that you have hanging around.
I normally keep the latest 2 just in case.
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Old 02-02-2009
Yeah, as previous poster said you should clean up the old kernel files.

Normally /boot should have enough room as long as you gave 100MB during install.

But you still can extend (I think on this) or convert FS type (done it) of the partition later. You may need to run grub-install if the partition is overwritten.
# 4  
Old 02-02-2009
My /boot directory is 97 megs

as far as cleanup, I have these files from 2006 I should be able to remove these for space?

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1367761 Jul 5 2006 vmlinuz-2.4.21-47.ELsmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 607622 Jul 5 2006 System.map-2.4.21-47.ELsmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49066 Jul 5 2006 config-2.4.21-47.ELsmp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3551888 Jul 5 2006 vmlinux-2.4.21-47.ELsmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1260020 Jul 5 2006 vmlinuz-2.4.21-47.EL
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 580154 Jul 5 2006 System.map-2.4.21-47.EL
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48951 Jul 5 2006 config-2.4.21-47.EL
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2912720 Jul 5 2006 vmlinux-2.4.21-47.EL
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 259332 Jul 20 2006 initrd-2.4.21-47.ELsmp.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 253408 Jul 20 2006 initrd-2.4.21-47.EL.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1368127 Oct 13 2006 vmlinuz-2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 607622 Oct 13 2006 System.map-2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49066 Oct 13 2006 config-2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3551892 Oct 13 2006 vmlinux-2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1260061 Oct 13 2006 vmlinuz-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 580154 Oct 13 2006 System.map-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48951 Oct 13 2006 config-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2912724 Oct 13 2006 vmlinux-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 254803 Oct 20 2006 initrd-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 260801 Oct 20 2006 initrd-2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp.img
Last edited by redac; 02-02-2009 at 03:42 PM..
# 5  
Old 02-02-2009
Find out what kernel you're using. 'cat /proc/version'
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