Mick wrote: > > Quite inexplicable ... > > My kernel is 7.1M, System.map 3.4M and config is 114K. I usually leave a > total of three kernels and associated files in my ext2 46M /boot partition > and > they all used to fit in there. I tried to install grub-0.97-r16 on this > system a number of times, each time removing another spare kernel until I was > left with the latest kernel and each time it failed to install completely due > to running out of disk space. > > These are the contents of my old /boot/grub/ as restored from a back up: > > # ls -la /boot/grub/ > total 1958 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Dec 3 14:07 . > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Dec 3 11:58 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12506 Nov 27 2016 ascii.h > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5000 Nov 27 2016 ascii.pf2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 197 Feb 27 2010 default > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Feb 27 2010 device.map > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10036 Dec 10 2016 e2fs_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52151 Nov 27 2016 euro.pf2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9236 Dec 10 2016 fat_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8564 Dec 10 2016 ffs_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8947 Nov 27 2016 grub-mkconfig_lib > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 809 Dec 3 14:07 grub.conf > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8564 Dec 10 2016 iso9660_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10208 Dec 10 2016 jfs_stage1_5 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 27 2010 menu.lst -> grub.conf > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8724 Dec 10 2016 minix_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11252 Dec 10 2016 reiserfs_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33856 Dec 10 2016 splash.xpm.gz > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Dec 10 2016 stage1 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118712 Dec 10 2016 stage2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118712 Dec 20 2015 stage2.old > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118712 Dec 10 2016 stage2_eltorito > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8852 Dec 10 2016 ufs2_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1363292 Nov 27 2016 unicode.pf2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8212 Dec 10 2016 vstafs_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49238 Nov 27 2016 widthspec.h > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10874 Dec 10 2016 xfs_stage1_5 > > Installing grub-0.97-r16 would run out of disk space while trying to copy the > stage2 file. >
Could it be that you ran out of inodes on the /boot partition? Have you tried # du -i on /boot? raffaele
