confusion about pre upgrade and /boot partition

[Scott Robbins]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 06:17:56PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Scott Robbins wrote:
>>


>> The impression I am getting is that it will eventually fail if the /boot
>> partition is too small.  My /boot partition is about 100 MB or so.  I
>> removed all older kernels and left the minimum in there.  However, more
>> googling indicated the image it will need is actually over 100 MB. 
>>
>
> The issue may be not that /boot is too small, but that you're using
> / (the root filesystem) for everything _including_ /boot.  In that
> case, yup, you're going to run out of space PDQ (pretty damned quick).
> On my laptop, for instance:
>
> 	[rick at golem3 ~]$ df -h
> 	Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> 	/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>          	              76G   41G   31G  58% /
> 	/dev/sda3              92M   30M   58M  34% /boot
> 	tmpfs                1002M   76K 1002M   1% /dev/shm
>

No, it is separate, and at present 

/dev/sda1              104M    38M    61M  39% /boot


As mentioned, in my earlier googling, it seemed that the new image will
require, at some point, about 116 MBs.  

Thanks for the further clarification. 


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