Re: imminent /boot problem. [SOLVED (for a while!)]

home user composed on 2024-02-25 21:17 (UTC-0700): > On 2/24/24 11:49 PM, Tim via users wrote: I'm curious how you installed it in the first place, then? >> home user: >>> That was about 11 years ago, so my memory of that is foggy and >>> incomplete. >>> I installed windows-7 first,

Re: imminent /boot problem. [SOLVED (for a while!)]

On 2/25/24 4:52 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 7:39 PM home user mailto:mattis...@comcast.net>> wrote: [...] I wrestled for many days this past fall trying to make a working LiveUSB.  Couldn't get it to work.  I was able to establish that neither the sticks

Re: imminent /boot problem. [SOLVED (for a while!)]

On 2/24/24 11:49 PM, Tim via users wrote: Tim: I'm curious how you installed it in the first place, then? home user: That was about 11 years ago, so my memory of that is foggy and incomplete. I installed windows-7 first, probably from a CD purchased from a local (near Washington, D.C)

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 1:29 PM Tim via users wrote: > I'd like to run the few WiFi controlled lights I have locally, all this > cloud stuff goes against the grain, I loathe things controlled by > mobile phones, even though I am doing that. For that reason all the > main lighting has no smarts.

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 11:29 AM Tim via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > I'd like to run the few WiFi controlled lights I have locally (The rest of this has nothing directly to do with Fedora) I do this with Phillips Hue lights and Home Assistant. The Hue integration in Home

Re: imminent /boot problem.

Tim: >> I still have one ancient motherboard that cannot boot from USB >> sticks. Go Canes: > Once upon a time you could use "plop boot manager" to boot off of USB > devices if the motherboard didn't provide support. Of course this > meant that you had to have something that could boot plop,

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 1:49 AM Tim via users wrote: > I still have one ancient motherboard that cannot boot from USB sticks. > It's only options for USB booting are USB floppy and USB zip drives, > neither of which like USB anything else. It's also an extremely > useless motherboard, small RAM

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 7:39 PM home user wrote: > [...] > I wrestled for many days this past fall trying to make a working LiveUSB. > Couldn't > get it to work. I was able to establish that neither the sticks nor the > ports were the problem. > > I find that upgrading Fedora more than a few

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/24/24 22:50, Tim via users wrote: Samuel Sieb (re: lost & found directory): That directory is also special. There might be consequences for recreating it. I don't know if it's accessed by name or inode. I would imagine there'd have to be reserved space in the partition so it doesn't

Re: imminent /boot problem.

Samuel Sieb (re: lost & found directory): > That directory is also special. There might be consequences for > recreating it. I don't know if it's accessed by name or inode. I would imagine there'd have to be reserved space in the partition so it doesn't otherwise fill up 100% making it

Re: imminent /boot problem.

Tim: >> I'm curious how you installed it in the first place, then? home user: > That was about 11 years ago, so my memory of that is foggy and > incomplete. > > I installed windows-7 first, probably from a CD purchased from a > local (near Washington, D.C) store. > > Then using either a CD

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/24/24 7:10 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sat, 2024-02-24 at 13:58 -0700, home user wrote: No other computer. No live boot. Tried making one multiple times with multiple sticks and multiple ports. Even a local youngish professional programmer (specializing in embedded and micro) could not

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On Sat, 2024-02-24 at 13:58 -0700, home user wrote: > No other computer. > No live boot. Tried making one multiple times with multiple sticks > and multiple ports. Even a local youngish professional programmer > (specializing in embedded and micro) could not figure it out. I'm curious how you

Re: imminent /boot problem. [SOLVED (for a while!)]

On 2/22/24 11:21 AM, home user wrote: (f-38; gnome) Good morning, While doing my weekly "dnf upgrade" a little while ago, I got the following pop-up at the top of the screen" -- Low Disk Space on"boot" The volume "boot" has only 20.9 MB disk space remaining. Examine   Ignore -- Seeing

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/24/24 1:34 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/24/24 12:16, home user wrote: On 2/23/24 2:34 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 12:19:51PM -0700, home user wrote: On 2/23/24 5:44 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:22 PM home user mailto:mattis...@comcast.net>>

Re: imminent /boot problem.

you could delete it. it is create the next fsck run -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/23/24 3:31 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Samuel Sieb composed on 2024-02-23 16:48 (UTC-0500): home user wrote: -bash.4[~]: fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors Disk model: ST2000DM006-2DM1 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/23/24 2:51 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/23/24 11:19, home user wrote: On 2/23/24 5:44 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:22 PM home user mailto:mattis...@comcast.net>> wrote: Is there anything in your /boot/lost+found? /boot/lost+found/: total 20 drwx--. 2

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/23/24 2:48 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/23/24 10:44, home user wrote: -bash.4[~]: fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors Disk model: ST2000DM006-2DM1 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/24/24 12:16, home user wrote: On 2/23/24 2:34 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 12:19:51PM -0700, home user wrote: On 2/23/24 5:44 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:22 PM home user > wrote: Is there anything in your

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/23/24 2:34 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 12:19:51PM -0700, home user wrote: On 2/23/24 5:44 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:22 PM home user mailto:mattis...@comcast.net>> wrote: Is there anything in your /boot/lost+found? /boot/lost+found/:

Re: imminent /boot problem.

Samuel Sieb composed on 2024-02-23 16:48 (UTC-0500): > home user wrote: >> -bash.4[~]: fdisk -l >> Disk /dev/sda: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors >> Disk model: ST2000DM006-2DM1 >> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes >> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/23/24 11:19, home user wrote: On 2/23/24 5:44 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:22 PM home user > wrote: Is there anything in your /boot/lost+found? /boot/lost+found/: total 20 drwx--. 2 root root 12288 Mar 17  2013 .

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/23/24 10:44, home user wrote: -bash.4[~]: fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors Disk model: ST2000DM006-2DM1 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 12:19:51PM -0700, home user wrote: On 2/23/24 5:44 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:22 PM home user mailto:mattis...@comcast.net>> wrote: Is there anything in your /boot/lost+found? /boot/lost+found/: total 20 drwx--. 2 root root 12288

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/23/24 5:44 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:22 PM home user mailto:mattis...@comcast.net>> wrote: Is there anything in your /boot/lost+found? /boot/lost+found/: total 20 drwx--. 2 root root 12288 Mar 17 2013 . dr-xr-xr-x. 6 root root 5120 Feb 22 20:21 ..

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/22/24 9:27 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Output from: cat /etc/fstab -bash.1[~]: cat /etc/fstab # # /etc/fstab # Created by anaconda on Sun Mar 17 20:21:35 2013 # # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk' # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8)

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:22 PM home user wrote: > (f-38; gnome) > Good morning, > > While doing my weekly "dnf upgrade" a little while ago, I got the > following pop-up at the top of the screen" > -- > Low Disk Space on"boot" > The volume "boot" has only 20.9 MB disk space remaining. > >

Re: imminent /boot problem.

home user composed on 2024-02-22 21:06 (UTC-0700): > Felix Miata wrote: ... >> Does your overall configuration necessitate having boot on its own >> partition? If >> not, and you have plenty of freespace on /, you could remount your /boot/ >> filesystem elsewhere, remove that filesystem from

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/22/24 4:46 PM, Felix Miata wrote: home user composed on 2024-02-22 16:30 (UTC-0700): Is my only real choice to cut back from 2 old kernels to 1 old kernel? Maybe not. Most people don't need to run more than one kernel at a time, or retain more than one as emergency fallback. Does your

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/22/24 8:46 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/22/24 19:32, home user wrote: Sorry, I misinterpreted it.  You're keeping 2 *old* kernels and I read it as keeping 2 kernels *total*. Well, I'm not the best of writers! If you change the installonly_limit=3 to 2 in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf then it

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/22/24 19:32, home user wrote: On 2/22/24 4:56 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/22/24 10:21, home user wrote: While doing my weekly "dnf upgrade" a little while ago, I got the following pop-up at the top of the screen" -- Low Disk Space on"boot" The volume "boot" has only 20.9 MB disk

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/22/24 4:56 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/22/24 10:21, home user wrote: While doing my weekly "dnf upgrade" a little while ago, I got the following pop-up at the top of the screen" -- Low Disk Space on"boot" The volume "boot" has only 20.9 MB disk space remaining. I'm only keeping 2 old

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/22/24 10:21, home user wrote: While doing my weekly "dnf upgrade" a little while ago, I got the following pop-up at the top of the screen" -- Low Disk Space on"boot" The volume "boot" has only 20.9 MB disk space remaining. I'm only keeping 2 old kernels now.  I did not do anything to

Re: imminent /boot problem.

home user composed on 2024-02-22 16:30 (UTC-0700): > Is my only real choice to cut back from 2 old kernels to 1 old kernel? Maybe not. Most people don't need to run more than one kernel at a time, or retain more than one as emergency fallback. Does your overall configuration necessitate having

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/22/24 4:02 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/22/2024 03:46 PM, home user wrote: It's dual boot: Fedora-38 and windows-7. I seriously doubt that the /boot partition can be made larger, but I'm no sys.admin. and I could be wrong. Dual boot doesn't matter.  /boot is only used by Linux, and

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/22/24 1:01 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:33 PM Mike Wright wrote: On 2/22/24 10:21, home user wrote: (f-38; gnome) Good morning, While doing my weekly "dnf upgrade" a little while ago, I got the following pop-up at the top of the screen" -- Low Disk Space

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 02/22/2024 03:46 PM, home user wrote: It's dual boot: Fedora-38 and windows-7. I seriously doubt that the /boot partition can be made larger, but I'm no sys.admin. and I could be wrong. Dual boot doesn't matter. /boot is only used by Linux, and generally isn't ever mounted when you're

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/22/24 2:50 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/22/24 10:21, home user wrote: (f-38; gnome) Good morning, While doing my weekly "dnf upgrade" a little while ago, I got the following pop-up at the top of the screen" -- Low Disk Space on"boot" The volume "boot" has only 20.9 MB disk space

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/22/24 10:21, home user wrote: (f-38; gnome) Good morning, While doing my weekly "dnf upgrade" a little while ago, I got the following pop-up at the top of the screen" -- Low Disk Space on"boot" The volume "boot" has only 20.9 MB disk space remaining. How big is your boot partition?

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/22/24 12:58 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 1:22 PM home user wrote: (f-38; gnome) Good morning, While doing my weekly "dnf upgrade" a little while ago, I got the following pop-up at the top of the screen" -- Low Disk Space on"boot" The volume "boot" has only 20.9

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:33 PM Mike Wright wrote: > > On 2/22/24 10:21, home user wrote: > > (f-38; gnome) > > Good morning, > > > > While doing my weekly "dnf upgrade" a little while ago, I got the > > following pop-up at the top of the screen" > > -- > > Low Disk Space on"boot" > > The

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 1:22 PM home user wrote: > > (f-38; gnome) > Good morning, > > While doing my weekly "dnf upgrade" a little while ago, I got the following > pop-up at the top of the screen" > -- > Low Disk Space on"boot" > The volume "boot" has only 20.9 MB disk space remaining. > >

Re: imminent /boot problem.

On 2/22/24 10:21, home user wrote: (f-38; gnome) Good morning, While doing my weekly "dnf upgrade" a little while ago, I got the following pop-up at the top of the screen" -- Low Disk Space on"boot" The volume "boot" has only 20.9 MB disk space remaining. Examine   Ignore -- Seeing

imminent /boot problem.

(f-38; gnome) Good morning, While doing my weekly "dnf upgrade" a little while ago, I got the following pop-up at the top of the screen" -- Low Disk Space on"boot" The volume "boot" has only 20.9 MB disk space remaining. Examine   Ignore -- Seeing that a new kernel needs... over