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zuntik

Member

Registered: 2017-08-11

Posts: 37

Boot Partition too small

Hello,

I'm trying to run `sudo mkinitcpio -p linux`. Amongst all of the lines, the following stands out:

==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
zstd: error 25 : Write error : No space left on device (cannot write compressed block)
==> ERROR: Image generation FAILED: zstd reported an error

and right at the end

==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
zstd: error 25 : Write error : No space left on device (cannot write compressed block)
==> ERROR: Image generation FAILED: zstd reported an error

then I checked how full the /boot partition is with `df -h`:

$ df -h
Filesystem                           Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p1                96M   96M  1.0K 100% /boot

but the result of `fdisk -l` is

# fdisk -l
Device                      Start        End          Sectors   Size      Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1      2048    1050623   1048576   512M    EFI System

What is going on?

Thank you.

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: Boot Partition too small

You only have a 100MB filesystem in a 512MB partition.

Copy everything off the partition, reformat it to the correct size and then copy everything back again. Don't forget to update your fstab with the new UUID.

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zuntik

Member

Registered: 2017-08-11

Posts: 37

Re: Boot Partition too small

Thank you for the reply Slithery.

Could you be a little more specific on how I can do this? Do I use a tool like dd? do I copy all the files and hidden files to a directory under my home ext4 partition? And what about my windows partition which shares the same partition because of `/boot/EFI` ? Will windows still boot normally? Or will if affect the boot process and therefor I need to write down the recovery key?
And I suppose you don't have any insight on how it happened in the first place, no?

Thank you very much once again.

zuntik

Member

Registered: 2017-08-11

Posts: 37

Re: Boot Partition too small

Slighery,

Before making any change, I would like to show how the KDE Partition manager don't show 100% full:
https://gyazo.com/2ebffd8d63d07088e6f1b215b1f36a20