Re: How to install a new kernel when your / partition is neary f
>
> That's what I really want to find out :-). A couple of years ago, even a 50
> Mb /
> partition seemed OK. IIRC, with debian 1.3 it was just a 3 or 4 floppy
> install.
>
> From what I gather, when you install a new kernel image using apt-get, the
> old
> one is kept (which is a sensible decision) and present-day kernels (plus the
> modules etc) take up quite a lot of space after unpacking and I have to
> install
> the pcmcia modules at the same time as well. I'm not my linux box now so I
> cannot provide more factual information at the current moment.
>
Hmm, lots of modules could be eating your inodes. So you think you have space
but actually have no inodes to allocate.
Or perhaps /tmp is a culprit? On my system / looks like this:
3.4M /bin
1.2M /boot
26k /dev
4.8M /etc
8.4M /lib
2.8M /sbin
Which is 20mb or so. /tmp and /root are common places for problems to hide.
Perhaps a copy of the kernel source tarball is still in root's home dir.
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