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Hello,
latest Fedora 39 update fails to install due to insufficient space on /boot.
My /boot is only 500 MB, a relic from some time back.
I'm only keeping 1 previous kernel version to save space.
A look in /boot shows quite a bit of space used by debug versions. Advice elsewhere suggested debug versions could be deleted if I'm not building my own kernels, but trying that shows that a number of other tools/applications will be deleted as well, they have a dependency I guess.
Any suggestions as to how best tackle this issue?
Trite I know, but that's the answer. Fedora has always (as long as I've been using it anyway) used /boot as a temp scratchpad during updates. It's just a filesystem in a partition - increase it; move it if necessary although that may require a re-install of your loader to fix the NVRAM (UEFI).
OK.
I did look into increasing the size of /boot, but it did look like it was going to end up being a very messy exercise.
I had a faint hope that there might be some advice as to which of the debug versions of the kernel etc might not really be needed.
Thanks for your advice, I'll ponder on the problem some more.
Advice elsewhere suggested debug versions could be deleted if I'm not building my own kernels, but trying that shows that a number of other tools/applications will be deleted as well, they have a dependency I guess.
That doesn't sound right, I spent years deleting kernels - core and debug. Show us the command you used, and the listing it offered up.
That had me a bit concerned, so decided not to proceed at that time.
I had another think about it, and did a bit of snooping as to what the other packages actually did, and came to the conclusion that it was no risk to me to have them all deleted.
I've now got about 200 MB free space in /boot and thus far, all appears to be OK.
OK, thanks for responding.
I had already carried out the 'dnf remove...' before you entered the discussion, and your comments gave me some cause for concern.
The system does seem to OK thus far, although a recent kernel update has shrunk available /boot space back to about 80MB...yet to ascertain what has been added during that update that wasn't there after my 'dnf remove...'.
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