nested boot directories

pugsley · 11-03-2006, 05:19 PM

I noticed that I had only 1.7G left of a 8.7G hard drive with a basic SUSE10 install on it. Home is on another drive. I could find no obvious large files but with a bit of drilling down found that /boot appears to nest recursively on and on - gave up drilling down after 20 levels. With about 8M per level this is what has chewed up the drive space.

Anyone seen this before - another box that I have does not have this "feature"?

Can I delete the lower level copies?

Cheers

bigrigdriver · 11-03-2006, 05:35 PM

Although it *appears* to be repeated almost infinitely, you can verify that it does not in fact repeat.

From a console, run the command 'du -c --max-depth 20 /boot', and you will see what I mean.

I have the same apparent repetition of /boot in SuSE 9.3. I don't know what it's all about.

pugsley · 11-03-2006, 05:48 PM

Thanks for the reply. I get

wise@linux:~> du -c --max-depth 20 /boot
312 /boot/grub
6272 /boot
6272 total
wise@linux:~> du -c /boot
312 /boot/grub
6272 /boot
6272 total

I am still at a loss as to where my lost HD space has gone - in the order of 5G!!

Dave

syg00 · 11-03-2006, 05:49 PM

Probably you have a separate boot partition, and a symbolic in the grub directory back to "."
Do a "ls -al".

See the grub FAQ

syg00 · 11-03-2006, 05:51 PM

"du / -x | sort -nr | less"

pugsley · 11-03-2006, 06:04 PM

Again thanks for the responses - this is the main thing that I like about the linux community. Yes I do consider the advise given and always check the --help before launching a command.

With regard to /boot/grub - no symbolic links.

Thanks

Dave