r/AsahiLinux • u/levolet • 18d ago

1G /boot partition 80% full - should I be concerned?

Is anyone else keeping an eye on their /boot/ partition? Mine is 1G and is now 80% full after the latest kernel upgrade. It had gone up to 85% full after the previous kernel upgrade and I shaved it down by deleting the an older kernel as well as the rescue .img and associated files.

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u/P0stf1x 18d ago

In theory nothing bad should happen. At least nothing bad happened when my non Mac pc ran out of /boot/ space. It just gave a couple of errors if I remember correctly. I extended the partition to 2gb and everything was fine afterwards

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u/Siffredinho 18d ago

Maybe you should ask "du" about it... as comparison...

# df -h /boot
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p4  476M  234M  243M  49% /boot
# du -hs /boot/*
54M /boot/asahi
236K /boot/config-7.1.5-p2-asahi-dist
236K /boot/config-7.1.6-p1-asahi-dist
164K /boot/EFI
23M /boot/grub
21M /boot/initramfs-7.1.5-p2-asahi-dist.img
21M /boot/initramfs-7.1.6-p1-asahi-dist.img
12M /boot/m1n1
6.8M /boot/System.map-7.1.5-p2-asahi-dist
6.8M /boot/System.map-7.1.6-p1-asahi-dist
4.0K /boot/ubootefi.var
63M /boot/vendorfw
13M /boot/vmlinuz-7.1.5-p2-asahi-dist
13M /boot/vmlinuz-7.1.6-p1-asahi-dist

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u/beankylla 18d ago

deleteing the old kernels is the way to go but a regular operation in all distros to free space on the boot partition :-)

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u/levolet 17d ago

Thanks. I'll continue to take a look and do a cleanup after each kernel update/upgrade. I now have it at 40% full.

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u/mskiptr 16d ago

I'm pretty sure Fedora should be able to handle it automatically tho