Re: [gentoo-user] /boot without space.

On Freitag, 22. Juni 2007, Ricardo Bevilacqua wrote:
> 2007/6/21, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@volumehost.net>:
> > Try using:
> > du -xa /boot | sort -rn
> > as root to locate the space hogs, which may be hidden files. (du does
> > "lie" sometimes though, because the assumptions it makes about file size
> > aren't always true.)
>
> tux ric # du -xa /boot | sort -rn
> 7283 /boot
> 2935 /boot/gentoo-2.6.20
> 2903 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-gentoo-r7.old
> 993 /boot/System.map-2.6.20-gentoo-r7
> 345 /boot/grub
> 100 /boot/grub/stage2_eltorito
> 100 /boot/grub/stage2
> 56 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-gentoo-r7
> 44 /boot/config-2.6.20-gentoo-r7
> 36 /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> 12 /boot/grub/xfs_stage1_5
> 12 /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5
> 8 /boot/grub/vstafs_stage1_5
> 8 /boot/grub/ufs2_stage1_5
> 8 /boot/grub/minix_stage1_5
> 8 /boot/grub/jfs_stage1_5
> 8 /boot/grub/iso9660_stage1_5
> 8 /boot/grub/ffs_stage1_5
> 8 /boot/grub/fat_stage1_5
> 8 /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5
> 4 /boot/grub/stage1
> 4 /boot/grub/grub.conf.sample
> 4 /boot/grub/grub.conf
> 4 /boot/grub/device.map
> 4 /boot/grub/default
> 0 /boot/vmlinuz
> 0 /boot/System.map
> 0 /boot/.keep
> 0 /boot/grub/menu.lst
> 0 /boot/config
> 0 /boot/boot
>
> Ok, this shows me every file on /boot, only ~15Mb, which is more that
> I had calculated before.
>
> > You might also fire up filelight and/or the file size view of konqueror
> > (either would also need to be as root) if you prefer a graphical view.
> > (They will suffer from the same limitations as du, but their assumptions
> > my be different.)
>
> Almost the same with a graphical view.
>
> > Oh, I'm not sure while filesystem you are using, but reiserfs reserves
> > some space for the block usage bitmap and misc. metadata, and that takes
> > up a number of MB.
>
> You might be right, but still, we have found out that the files are
> ~15Mb, if the partition has a size of 40Mb, is it possible that
> reiserfs is using almost 25Mb for storing data?

it is using per default 32mb for its journal.

The missing mb (32+15>40) comes from two facts: du lies
and tail packing.

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