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jomo_G

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From: Edmonton

Registered: 2023-11-07

Posts: 12

[Solved]My boot partition is full

hello, I hope you are doing well. This morning, when I was maintaining my system, a notification prmopts me that my /boot is full. Below are my outputs of both

df -h

and

pacman -Q | grep linux

For

df -h

:

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev             7.7G     0  7.7G   0% /dev
run             7.7G  6.5M  7.7G   1% /run
efivarfs        128K   55K   69K  45% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/nvme0n1p3  453G   53G  378G  13% /
tmpfs           7.7G  194M  7.5G   3% /dev/shm
tmpfs           7.7G   39M  7.7G   1% /tmp
/dev/nvme0n1p1  500M  500M     0 100% /boot
tmpfs           1.6G  180K  1.6G   1% /run/user/1000

For

pacman -Q | grep linux

archlinux-keyring 20231222-1
lib32-util-linux 2.39.3-1
linux 6.7.arch3-1
linux-api-headers 6.4-1
linux-firmware 20240115.9b6d0b08-1
linux-firmware-bnx2x 20240115.9b6d0b08-1
linux-firmware-liquidio 20240115.9b6d0b08-1
linux-firmware-marvell 20240115.9b6d0b08-1
linux-firmware-mellanox 20240115.9b6d0b08-1
linux-firmware-nfp 20240115.9b6d0b08-1
linux-firmware-qlogic 20240115.9b6d0b08-1
linux-firmware-whence 20240115.9b6d0b08-1
linux-headers 6.7.arch3-1
util-linux 2.39.3-1
util-linux-libs 2.39.3-1

Thank you
jomo

Last edited by jomo_G (2024-01-26 04:04:50)

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 9,003

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Re: [Solved]My boot partition is full

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=291900?

No idea if that's fixed yet though, I don't use the KMS hook and I got bored of the thread.

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jomo_G

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From: Edmonton

Registered: 2023-11-07

Posts: 12

Re: [Solved]My boot partition is full

Not a perfect solution but I did free up a little space for my boot following this thread

It's archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio#238.

Since Linux 6.7, nouveau uses the GSP firmware so it's included in the initramfs and since the firmware files are huge, the initramfs gets bloated.
There's no simple solution for this. "firmware groups" would be a solution, but the patches are not yet merged in the kernel.

For now, the simplest workaround is to exclude the kms hook from the fallback initramfs. Edit /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset and change fallback_options to:

fallback_options="-S autodetect -S kms"

Alternatively disable fallback initramfs generation entirely:

PRESETS=('default')

If the size of the main initramfs image is the issue, then compress it more by using xz -9e.

If you are experiencing the same issue, just try this, see if it helps