On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 06:33:02PM +0300, Heikki Pesonen wrote: > My firs attempt to install Linux to my computer failed totally. After > it I had to reinstall all. The first Linux was Fedora core 3 or 4. > After trying other distros I recently installed Fedora Core 5 which I > like very much. It's slick (very fast) and looks nice. > But every time I start Fedora a message appears: "100% disk space on > boot is in use". Does that be a problem in the future? > Recently I have three hard disks on my computer as you can see: > > Disk /dev/hdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > /dev/hdb2 14 19457 156183930 8e Linux LVM > I conclude from your fdisk output that your /boot partition is hdb1. It looks like it should be big enough. In fact it's the same size as mine, 114MB. I have three kernels installed on my desktop and they occupy all of 13MB. Here's a complete list of it: [root@charlesc images]# ll /boot/ -tr total 10289 drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Dec 21 2005 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94600 Feb 8 08:39 memtest86+-1.65 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1510257 Mar 14 14:01 vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 811765 Mar 14 14:01 System.map-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63896 Mar 14 14:01 config-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1059212 Apr 23 07:28 initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1509474 May 21 13:13 vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 810738 May 21 13:13 System.map-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64573 May 21 13:13 config-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1059185 May 30 18:03 initrd-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1519016 Jun 5 23:44 vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2133_FC5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 810738 Jun 5 23:44 System.map-2.6.16-1.2133_FC5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64562 Jun 5 23:44 config-2.6.16-1.2133_FC5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1063866 Jun 13 14:04 initrd-2.6.16-1.2133_FC5.img drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 20 11:50 grub drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Jun 20 11:50 . drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Jun 23 16:52 .. You should go through your /boot/grub/grub.conf, compare it to your /boot, and eliminate anything that grub doesn't need (/boot/grub) or call out in one stanza or another. Do not, however, remove lost+found; fsck requires it. Grub does not call out the System.map directly, but I'd leave it in for any kernel you keep. Just in case. Just to be careful, first make a boot CD. Then see what went onto the boot CD. Then eliminate by copying elsewhere rather than deleting. If that doesn't solve your problem, boot to a live CD system (I use finnix), and fsck all your Linux partitions. > > > Is it possible to repartition hdb in Fedora so that I could install an > other distro also to hdb? Yes. Use your LVM tools (again, I use finnix for this) to carve up your LVM stuff. Several different Linuxes can share /boot, as long as file names don't collide. You will have to manually merge all the different grub.confs as you install them. Perhaps someone has a script to do this handy? You can also share /home if it is on its own logical partition, but that could be dangerous due to version issues between the different distributions. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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