[ adding debian-release to the list for some troubling observations ] On Friday, 19 July 2024 15:54:57 CEST Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2024-07-19 14:32:28 +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > > On Friday, 19 July 2024 13:08:50 CEST Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > When upgrading the firmware: > > > > > > [...] > > > Setting up firmware-intel-graphics (20240610-1) ... > > > Setting up firmware-iwlwifi (20240610-1) ... > > > Setting up firmware-misc-nonfree (20240610-1) ... > > > Setting up firmware-nvidia-graphics (20240610-1) ... > > > Setting up firmware-intel-misc (20240610-1) ... > > > Setting up firmware-mediatek (20240610-1) ... > > > Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.142) ... > > > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.9.9-amd64 > > > zstd: error 70 : Write error : cannot write block : No space left on > > > device > > > > If you do not need all that firmware, try removing the ones you > > don't need. Especially if you don't need nvidia-graphics firmware, > > remove that because that is BIG (and the reason it got split out > > from misc-nonfree). It's a RECOMMENDS, so you can remove it (if you > > don't need it). > > The graphics card is a Nvidia one, so I probably need this firmware. > > In any case, the upgrade should work for any user, including when > all these packages are needed. > > > On Friday, 19 July 2024 13:08:50 CEST Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > This is wrong. There's plenty of space: > > > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > > ... > > > > > > 456M 243M 189M 57% /boot > > > > While generating the initramfs it needs a LOT more space then what's > > needed > > when the generation completes successfully. It's all the uncompressed > > files + the size of the compressed archived/initramfs. > > When done, it can remove all the uncompressed files. > > But it would be silly to use the /boot partition (which is typically > small) for storing the temporary uncompressed files. > > Note that https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apcs01.en.html > does not recommend anything for the /boot partition. > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apcs05.en.html says > "25–50MB should suffice" (though this is probably not sufficient > for most uses). > > https://linuxhint.com/boot-partition-size-debian/ says > 256 MB / 512 MB for Debian 11. > > Mine has 512 MB (more that 10 times the recommended 25–50MB).
Holy crap! Some quotes from the Stable documentation: "If you have a large IDE disk" "This restriction doesn't apply if you have a BIOS newer than around 1995–98" Seeing the word "cylinder" all over the place ... "CHS translation mode (“Large”)" = Cylinder/Head/Sector I presume? And then indeed "25–50MB should suffice" (for /boot/ partition). Maybe that document should be updated for this CENTURY?
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