Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1318 mails)

["John Andersen" <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Lars Müller <lmuelle@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:32:48PM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > On Friday, 2008-10-31 at 10:06 +0100, Lars Müller wrote:
> >
> > > For the zypper approach as it is in 11.1 and newer see the multiversion
> > > setting in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf  Here you define which packages are
> > > allowed to be installed multiple times.
> > >
> > > ##
> > > ## Packages which are parallel installable with
> > > ## diffent versions
> > > ##
> > > # multiversion = kernel-default,kernel-smp
> >
> > How many versions will that keep :-?
>
> I don't know.
>
> I expect this will keep all versions which includes the risk to run out
> of disk space in /boot.

I have a ubuntu machine running a rather oldish version (dapper I think)
where the user dutifully applies all updates as the ubuntu sofware updater
prompts him to do.

Lately I started seeing old vmlinuz file sets showing up in /root.
Checking, I found four sets in /boot and older ones being moved
to /root.

/boot was full (or nearly so).

It appears that ubuntu/debian simply auto-cleans /boot of the oldest image
in order to make room for the newest.

Since there were at least 3 sets remaining in /boot, this seems like a good
approach to avoid an overly full /boot (as long as you had the option of
turning it off or locking some old failsafe kernel.)



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