On 12/04/2017 02:16 PM, Reg Tiangha wrote: > On 12/04/2017 01:48 PM, Shashank wrote: >> Oh no probably i didn’t mention it in my initial post, sorry about that. I >> am actually dual booting on my system and set a partition of 80 gb on my >> hard drive. >> >> And I am getting the error that >> >> At least 3 mb disk space required on /boot/efi >> >> Thank you very much. >> > > You said that you were previously running R3.2 on this machine, correct? > > The problem is that whenever you upgrade or remove a Qubes kernel, the > uninstallation script does *not* remove the corresponding initramfs.img > file from /boot/efi/EFI/qubes/ so if you install and remove a bunch of > kernels, then over time, that directory gets cluttered up with old files > and thus you eventually run out of space on /boot. > > The answer would be to somehow mount /boot (probably using another OS) > and delete all the initramfs.img files in the /boot/efi/EFI/qubes/ that > no longer apply (which might be all of them or everything in that > directory, if you're attempting a clean install) and then retry the R4 > installation again. > > In fact, all Qubes users who upgrade kernels will get bitten by this > eventually (if they haven't already). If you've ever ran df -h in dom0 > and wondered why /boot seemed to be slowly filling up over time, this is > why. Not sure if it's a flaw in the qubes-kernel uninstallation script > or something else. I've just gotten into the habit of manually deleting > old img files in that directory whenever the system uninstalls a kernel. >
Edit: Sorry, I meant vmlinuz files, not initramfs img files. Then again, my systems use Legacy Boot rather than EFI; I'm not sure if they get properly deleted automatically on a proper EFI system. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/p04e9m%24t0d%241%40blaine.gmane.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
