On 18/04/17 04:45 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
L A Walsh composed on 2017-04-18 12:27 (UTC-0700):
I setup: /dev/sda1: boot@64MB
Is 64MB a typo? I remember that was a recommended size something like 15 years ago, when kernels were very much smaller.
On TW host gx62b I have 4 kernels installed. du -h /boot shows 235M consumed by /boot, or about 59MB (!?) per kernel not counting anything for bootloader files. Seems like even one installed kernel could conceivably not fit in a 64M boot filesystem given the larger size of initrds created at installation time.
I have a 1.6G /boot with three kernels, all of Grub2: occupancy 6%. Of course the modules live under /lib which is on the RootFS. I wonder sometimes about Bleachbit and if it should be able to purge those. Butter than 90% of them don't get used on a specific system. I will grant you that Linux, unlike MS-Windows, is hard-disk portable across hardware. This is exceedingly useful when it comes to using a USB stick! To be fair, some versions of Linux are more 'portable' as USB/LiveCD than others. I recall times that I've had problems with RedHat, Mageia and openSuse LiveCDs, and of course ubuntu LiveCD, (which I've given up on ever using!), but never, ever with Knoppix. But for most people the hard drive in desktop PC is personal. Under what conditions might I move the drive to another machine as opposed to install/reinstall and then restore my /home and /srv? Well, quite a lot, actually, I've done that a few times. I am not a vendor or someone who installs on disks and ships them to friends. I've never been pressed for space enough to want to purge modules. Bleachbit? Well I use that to purge caches, primarily. # du -sh /boot/* 3.1M /boot/System.map-4.10.10-1.ga78ebd0-default 3.1M /boot/System.map-4.10.9-1.g195f937-default 3.1M /boot/System.map-4.10.9-2.g739eada-default 4.0K /boot/backup_mbr 4.0K /boot/boot.readme 192K /boot/config-4.10.10-1.ga78ebd0-default 192K /boot/config-4.10.9-1.g195f937-default 192K /boot/config-4.10.9-2.g739eada-default 4.0K /boot/dracut 6.8M /boot/grub2 0 /boot/initrd 11M /boot/initrd-4.10.10-1.ga78ebd0-default 11M /boot/initrd-4.10.9-1.g195f937-default 11M /boot/initrd-4.10.9-2.g739eada-default 16K /boot/lost+found 492K /boot/message 4.0K /boot/perl-BL_delayed_exec 372K /boot/symvers-4.10.10-1.ga78ebd0-default.gz 372K /boot/symvers-4.10.9-1.g195f937-default.gz 372K /boot/symvers-4.10.9-2.g739eada-default.gz 4.0K /boot/sysctl.conf-4.10.10-1.ga78ebd0-default 4.0K /boot/sysctl.conf-4.10.9-1.g195f937-default 4.0K /boot/sysctl.conf-4.10.9-2.g739eada-default 9.4M /boot/vmlinux-4.10.10-1.ga78ebd0-default.gz 9.4M /boot/vmlinux-4.10.9-1.g195f937-default.gz 9.4M /boot/vmlinux-4.10.9-2.g739eada-default.gz 0 /boot/vmlinuz 6.8M /boot/vmlinuz-4.10.10-1.ga78ebd0-default 6.8M /boot/vmlinuz-4.10.9-1.g195f937-default 6.8M /boot/vmlinuz-4.10.9-2.g739eada-default # du -sh /lib/modules//* 208M /lib/modules//4.10.10-1.ga78ebd0-default 208M /lib/modules//4.10.9-1.g195f937-default 208M /lib/modules//4.10.9-2.g739eada-default -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org