Boot partition is full, should i clean it? And How? /boot partition should be 500Mo or more

[Kobold]

Hello,
I have my Manjaro on a Externel USB Drive installed and
i have a 200MB Bootpartition (installation was MBR) and after i updated to 5.10 i have zero free space on it.

I have removed my old Kernels in Manjaro Settings Manager but there are still old Kernel fallback boot Backups inside this Bootpartition.

Im worried, that i will get some corrupted boot data or something like that, if i dont make enough space befor the next Kernel update will happend.

Is there a easy way to get rid of the unused files?
Or should i ignore it, because there will be auto delete functions in Manjaro?

Thanks in advance

[mbb]

If you removed the old kernels through Manjaro Settings then you should have more space. Please post the output of df -h and pacman -Q | grep linux

[koshikas]

refer;

Cleaning up and freeing disk space

it appears to me that my Manjaro installation has grown fat overtime, and I was wondering if there is any efficient way to put it into an intensive diet. Where should I start from? p.s: wonderful new forum, it’ a shame my old posts got vaporized in the sea of bits, but hey stuff happens edit: since there wasn’t a single solution, I grouped the procedure that solved the problem for me Run the following commands in sequence: Blockquote sudo pacman -Sc sudo pacman -Qdt sudo pacman -Rns $(…

[stephane]

can you return

sudo mhwd-kernel -li
sudo ls /etc/mkinitcpio.d/*.preset

[Kobold]

@stephane
sudo mhwd-kernel -li

Currently running: 5.10.15-1-MANJARO (linux510)
The following kernels are installed in your system:

• linux510
• linux59

sudo ls /etc/mkinitcpio.d/*.preset

/etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux510.preset /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux58.preset
/etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux57.preset /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux59.preset

I also found yesterday another Topic, that is maybe related to mine where you gave the solution to it:
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-remove-a-ghost-kernel/

This means i clean it and update grub:

• sudo rm /boot/initramfs-5.8-x86_64-fallback.img
• sudo rm /boot/initramfs-5.8-x86_64.img
• sudo rm /boot/vmlinuz-5.8-x86_64
• sudo rm /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux58.preset
• sudo pacman -Qs linux58-
• sudo rm /boot/initramfs-5.7-x86_64-fallback.img
• sudo rm /boot/initramfs-5.7-x86_64.img
• sudo rm /boot/vmlinuz-5.7-x86_64
• sudo rm /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux57.preset
• sudo pacman -Qs linux57-
• sudo mkinitcpio -P
• sudo update-grub

Is this the right way to solve my problem?

[Kobold]

@mbb
df -h

df: /run/user/1000/doc: Operation not permitted
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev             7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev
run             7.8G  1.9M  7.8G   1% /run
/dev/sdc1        87G   18G   65G  22% /
tmpfs           7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           4.0M     0  4.0M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs           7.8G   50M  7.8G   1% /tmp
/dev/sda1       211G   32G  180G  16% /media/os
/dev/sdc3       190M  189M     0 100% /boot
/dev/sdc4       326G  3.8G  306G   2% /home
/dev/sdb2       586G  269G  318G  46% /media/games
tmpfs           1.6G  112K  1.6G   1% /run/user/1000

pacman -Q | grep linux

archlinux-appstream-data 20210125-1
archlinux-keyring 20210110-1
lib32-util-linux 2.36.1-1
linux-api-headers 5.10.13-1
linux-firmware 20210208.r1828.b79d239-1
linux510 5.10.15-1
linux510-nvidia 460.39-9
linux59 5.9.16-1
linux59-nvidia 460.39-1
util-linux 2.36.1-4
util-linux-libs 2.36.1-4

@mbb

If you removed the old kernels through Manjaro Settings

I did this already but the Bootpartition doesnt care, the only unused (but installed) Kernel is 5.9… that i still want to have as backup… till im sure 5.10 working flawless for me.

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btw. i have forgot how to format and paste code stuff, how was the command? I can’t remember… i just pasted my stuff with quote but this feels not right.

[stephane]

yes you will have to suppress 5.8 version

sudo rm /boot/initramfs-5.8-x86_64-fallback.img
 sudo rm /boot/initramfs-5.8-x86_64.img
 sudo rm /boot/vmlinuz-5.8-x86_64
 sudo rm /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux58.preset
 sudo pacman -Qs linux58-
 sudo rm /boot/initramfs-5.7-x86_64-fallback.img
 sudo rm /boot/initramfs-5.7-x86_64.img
 sudo rm /boot/vmlinuz-5.7-x86_64
 sudo rm /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux57.preset
 sudo pacman -Qs linux57-  
 sudo mkinitcpio -P
sudo mhwd-kernel -r linux59
sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux511
 sudo update-grub

as you have only /boot and 200Mo do not add 3rd kernels ,
if possible remove one for add one

[Kobold]

@stephane

sudo mhwd-kernel -r linux59
sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux511

-r is remove linux5.9 Kernel… i don’t want this yet.
-i is install linux 5.11 Kernel, but i want to stay on 5.10

I better skip this 2 commands, i hope timeshift backup cover /boot Partition if something fails

@stephane

as you have only /boot and 200Mo do not add 3rd kernels ,
if possible remove one for add one

I will do this, thanks.

I wish i had installed a bigger Boot Partition… well its my first time using Linux (specially rolling release Linux).

[stephane]

in /boot/efi , i have only cfg grub file

df -Th
/dev/sdf1        vfat       197M    275K  197M   1% /boot/efi

in /boot i have initram & faillback ( /boot is inside here / , not in a partition so all size )

@team-manjaro
bug calamares for size in case of /boot partition , 200Mo is too small

3 versions linux54 linux510&511

du -h /boot
145M	/boot