Should I worry? (/boot out of space after upgrade)

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@jhfry

Anyone have any suggestions of anything I should do to ensure that /boot is fully populated as it would have been during the upgrade?

1. If you do ls /boot/*fc43* then you should see 5 files corresponding to your kernel version:

config-...
initramfs-...
symvers-...
System.map-...
vmlinuz-...

2. If you do sudo ls /boot/loader/entries then there should be a .conf file in there corresponding to your new fc43 kernel version

As long as both those look fine, then you should have everything you need in /boot.

@jhfry

Finally… why, with a 1GB boot partition, did I run out of space

Here’s the background:

Systems with <=1 GB /boot partition may see "need more space" error during system update

Problem Some systems might encounter an error saying that more space on the /boot filesystem is needed when they try to perform a system update. Here’s an example error from the DNF package manager: Transaction failed: Rpm transaction failed. – installing package kernel-core-6.17.5-300.fc43.x86_64 needs 40MB more space on the /boot filesystem And a similar error is printed by GNOME Software: Error running transaction: installing package kernel-core-6.17.5-300.fc43.x86_64 needs 40MB more s…