[Swlug] Boot directory

[Marcus Davage]

Hi Bill. I've been a happy user of Linux Mint for years and years, on all
my home equipment. I just have a mental note to run autoremove each time
I'm prompted to upgrade the kernel.

Side note: had an IFA around the other night, who was running Linux Mint on
his laptop. He emailed me a password encrypted zip file, which Archive
Manager wouldn't extract. I ended up having to install another zip manager
and use that. (After unzipping it on my OnePlus phone first!)

Marcus

On Wed, 18 Sep 2019, 12:26 Bill Thomson via Swlug, <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk>
wrote:

> Thanks Mark, that's useful to know 🙂 I guess I'll just run autoremove
> every so often to keep the /boot partition reasonably clean.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Bill
>
> On 18 Sep 2019 12:12, Mark Einon via Swlug <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
> Be careful doing this!
>
> Not all systems/distros can read all filesystem types prior to initrd
> booting (as this is done by the bootloader).
>
> One of the compelling reasons for having a separate /boot is that it's
> formatted in a known supported FS, whilst you can have any Linux-
> supporting FS for your main partiton.
>
> Mark
>
> On Wed, 2019-09-18 at 10:10 +0100, Colin Law via Swlug wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 10:04, Bill Thomson via Swlug
> > <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> > > Hi Colin, that seems to have done the trick! I've freed up in excess
> > > of 2Gb in the boot directory - thank you!
> > >
> >
> > For future reference I believe it is generally considered better not
> > to have a separate partition for /boot as it can give rise to this
> > problem.  Just put /boot in the main root (/) partition so that it
> > will not fill up.  If it /boot actually fills up completely it can be
> > a big pain to recover as you can't then run autoremove, you have to
> > manually remove the old kernels.
> >
> > Colin
> >
>
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