Bug#562847: gzip: stdout: No space left on device
Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.93.4
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
I think, at least once You saw the message in subject. It is common
problem: the /boot directory placed on separate partition that should be
small. If there are more then one kernel, the disk space will be
necessarily exhausted, because new kernel version require more disk space
then old as usual. Turning off backup don't help because the old initrd
removed after the new one created. To solve this problem the backups should
be moved to separated directory and may be rotated. The old initrd should be
moved there or removed before the new one will be created. All this work is
done by script I have attached there. It is intended to be run before
update-initramfs, but there are no triggers to do this. Using
/etc/initramfs-tools/hooks don't help. Please, add this functionality as
options in config file.
-- Package-specific info:
-- /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=//vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 root=UUID=06779e83-c998-4a4b-bb52-f4bac1ee226a ro vga=795
-- /proc/filesystems
ext3
fuseblk
-- lsmod
Module Size Used by
vboxnetflt 9898 0
vboxnetadp 4177 0
vboxdrv 1709830 2 vboxnetflt,vboxnetadp
i915 246815 1
drm_kms_helper 18771 1 i915
drm 136351 3 i915,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 4225 1 i915
video 17333 1 i915
output 1692 1 video
ppdev 5030 0
lp 7462 0
kvm_intel 37600 0
kvm 210696 1 kvm_intel
autofs4 20533 2
fuse 49662 1
tun 10732 3
bridge 39310 0
stp 1440 1 bridge
coretemp 4165 0
snd_hda_codec_idt 42257 1
snd_hda_intel 17851 0
snd_hda_codec 52580 2 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 5220 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss 32223 0
snd_mixer_oss 12478 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 60263 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 15406 1 snd_pcm
i2c_i801 7510 0
evdev 7336 14
pcspkr 1699 0
processor 29351 0
i2c_core 15184 4 i915,drm,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801
snd 44158 8 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
iTCO_wdt 7525 0
parport_pc 18839 1
parport 27666 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
soundcore 4582 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 6105 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
ext3 105843 7
jbd 36621 1 ext3
mbcache 4970 1 ext3
sg 18600 3
usbhid 31068 0
sr_mod 12250 0
hid 62649 1 usbhid
cdrom 28615 1 sr_mod
sd_mod 29401 9
crc_t10dif 1276 1 sd_mod
ata_generic 2983 0
ahci 31430 10
pata_marvell 2597 0
firewire_ohci 19324 0
firewire_core 36288 1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t 1307 1 firewire_core
ide_pci_generic 2788 0
ide_core 76242 1 ide_pci_generic
libata 130935 3 ata_generic,ahci,pata_marvell
e1000e 109583 0
uhci_hcd 18377 0
ehci_hcd 30322 0
intel_agp 25441 1
agpgart 24733 3 drm,intel_agp
scsi_mod 121285 4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
usbcore 121015 4 usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
nls_base 6377 1 usbcore
button 4618 1 i915
thermal 11610 0
fan 3346 0
thermal_sys 11878 4 video,processor,thermal,fan
-- /etc/kernel-img.conf
# Kernel Image management overrides
# See kernel-img.conf(5) for details
do_symlinks = no
#relative_links = yes
do_bootloader = no
do_bootfloppy = no
do_initrd = yes
#link_in_boot = no
postinst_hook = /usr/sbin/update-grub
postrm_hook = /usr/sbin/update-grub
-- /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
MODULES=most
BUSYBOX=y
KEYMAP=n
BOOT=local
DEVICE=eth0
NFSROOT=auto
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R (charmap=KOI8-R)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii cpio 2.10-1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii findutils 4.4.2-1 utilities for finding files--find,
ii klibc-utils 1.5.15-1 small utilities built with klibc f
ii module-init-tools 3.11-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii udev 149-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
Versions of packages initramfs-tools recommends:
ii busybox 1:1.14.2-2 Tiny utilities for small and embed
initramfs-tools suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
#!/bin/sh
STORAGE=/var/backups
IMAGE=initrd.img-$version
STATEDIR="/var/lib/initramfs-tools"
BOOTDIR=/boot
# Shamelessly ripped from /etc/cron.daily/standard
if cd $STORAGE && [ -s ${BOOTDIR}/$IMAGE ]; then
if ! cmp -s $IMAGE.0 ${BOOTDIR}/$IMAGE ; then
mv ${BOOTDIR}/$IMAGE $IMAGE
savelog -l $IMAGE > /dev/null
else
rm ${BOOTDIR}/$IMAGE
fi
touch ${BOOTDIR}/$IMAGE
sha1sum ${BOOTDIR}/$IMAGE > ${STATEDIR}/${version}
fi
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