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adri172

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Registered: 2022-07-22

Posts: 3

Partition /boot is too full trying to upgrade the system

Hello,

I have several issues when trying to upgrade the system via:

sudo pacman -Syuu

Because it says the following:

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(701/701) checking keys in keyring                   [###########################] 100%
(701/701) checking package integrity                 [###########################] 100%
(701/701) loading package files                      [###########################] 100%
(701/701) checking for file conflicts                [###########################] 100%
(703/703) checking available disk space              [###########################] 100%
error: Partition /boot too full: 5311 blocks needed, 176 blocks free
error: not enough free disk space
error: failed to commit transaction (not enough free disk space)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

And the output for the disks:

Model: ATA WDC WDS240G2G0B- (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 240GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End    Size    File system  Name                          Flags
 1      1049kB  556MB  555MB   ntfs         Basic data partition          hidden, diag
 2      556MB   661MB  105MB   fat32        EFI system partition          boot, esp
 3      661MB   677MB  16.8MB               Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 4      2337MB  239GB  237GB   ntfs         Basic data partition          msftdata


Model: ATA HGST HTS721010A9 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size   File system  Name                  Flags
 1      1049kB  476GB   476GB  ntfs         Basic data partition  msftdata
 2      476GB   1000GB  525GB  ext4


NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda      8:0    0 223.6G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0   529M  0 part 
├─sda2   8:2    0   100M  0 part /boot
├─sda3   8:3    0    16M  0 part 
└─sda4   8:4    0 220.7G  0 part 
sdb      8:16   0 931.5G  0 disk 
├─sdb1   8:17   0   443G  0 part 
└─sdb2   8:18   0 488.5G  0 part /
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom  

I try to reasign the space for sda-sda2 but in gparted is locked. Why do I need to assign more space to the boot partition??

How can I fix that?

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,266

Re: Partition /boot is too full trying to upgrade the system

100MB for /boot is very little for both Windows and a linux initramfs with the fallback image. If you don't do sweeping HW changes you could disable generation of the fallback image with little repercussion by removing /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img it from your /boot then editing /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset and removing 'fallback' from the PRESETS line.

Another approach would be to use a bootloader that can read the kernel image from your / partition so that you do not need as much space on the ESP.

Last edited by V1del (2022-07-22 19:23:15)

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,671

Re: Partition /boot is too full trying to upgrade the system

True that.  I just checked mine.  120MB.  No Linux boot loader (I use EFISTUB);  There is Microsoft Loader that does not get much love.  I do have two uEFI Firmware images in there that are 20MB each that I could remove.  That would put me at 80MB.

But, I would think there should be enough room in the OP's if they are frugal with space.  adri172, could you post the output of find /boot and du /boot and lets see what you have

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