From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-yb1-f174.google.com (mail-yb1-f174.google.com [209.85.219.174]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3191635506 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2023 06:15:54 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=gmail.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=gmail.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="MTdshU1w" Received: by mail-yb1-f174.google.com with SMTP id 3f1490d57ef6-d8164e661abso6927179276.1 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2023 23:15:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20230601; t=1697004953; x=1697609753; darn=lists.linux.dev; h=in-reply-to:content-disposition:mime-version:references:message-id :subject:cc:to:from:date:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=4NKUp+P4tXKbGcyJBOhjkRhDEG15jK9iDB6tBhM/g4E=; b=MTdshU1wTPTVl23Mal+vT+c/mXz3LqbxTOe1Z7byqi7z2HdO6hgX3uoZ263xyGt111 T0vukECOVPdaT7MpoKdElNVuPHF0T/iLj60N1TGITbRsA8DPFmJIOTvwOH9r1rOVyciD kDULmR1eg/CM1azcsgOBcXHM3eubjOVPINb3t95idxAnU4ANYqJi2GG79Drqe4wSmlkO ci3qEKBC23FHNLJR4KuzBmtzV2/U0o3PcDsUhMT536vahkvy6ifd8exp5JYvUZ9CtmGp j7VhqbYvJbLT7NRn1q0qAQS0rXt3RegTYrFUR8NIX5BMJRtN0jjFWCIhBkAlkTOJuXDR /pcw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1697004953; x=1697609753; h=in-reply-to:content-disposition:mime-version:references:message-id :subject:cc:to:from:date:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date :message-id:reply-to; bh=4NKUp+P4tXKbGcyJBOhjkRhDEG15jK9iDB6tBhM/g4E=; b=M+a4L8EhBRPKqJCLUKRpUmjSiTj0Q4yv8JsVFTRrhRudfqB83OdchG3emcJk96ELRO /aK3vt1lESZplQCGR7fDYHhFOVj5o60zkJQJ3m/T1i4ZmP5+y5Ml//Hq9It9Hv9wjlpo gvKRP9Y25oVwAHsGHJbBrC/EQZZmeiIKh9lwcfMlFlZN/lkhZQNFZ5GQyynAKLDK8g+5 fb9zS9q8nFo61cwzx4v0YPEJSnKT1bE/3s8uMawB3xvp/qN4XXYDGNSr2RtD5fHFADZe I7viYgya39BlTT0NDCiLeuuDP2z1gt6/FGzXAwoeqJbcJUvXUVvh+tR9ASdOFrvxt3qc uyrA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0YzX2Zvku12SnWomh9QTQ+myiDMEhlEYCfY9LDkPVjQJokA67Qay P1ezF/qrVHMBYBkTQ3zUBMs6uee2C9YScUAi X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IHhs4xnajHcHauXgfuV0jy2TMMtCpmbQ90BPF9xlssJcjLtn6vjRnDfgZcr1qhE1CyuJDtwqQ== X-Received: by 2002:a05:6902:18c9:b0:d3b:108b:c104 with SMTP id ck9-20020a05690218c900b00d3b108bc104mr23186780ybb.54.1697004953403; Tue, 10 Oct 2023 23:15:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilbert-PC ([105.112.30.11]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id u74-20020a25ab50000000b00d7481ed7e45sm4329708ybi.56.2023.10.10.23.15.51 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 10 Oct 2023 23:15:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 07:15:48 +0100 From: Gilbert Adikankwu To: Andi Shyti Cc: outreachy@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [Outreachy Applicant] NEEDS SOME CLARIFICATIONS Message-ID: References: <8e38f1a1-1da4-1d1f-aa32-6ad7ebb31c11@inria.fr> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: outreachy@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 10:54:19PM +0200, Andi Shyti wrote: > Hi Gilbert, > > > Thank you for your response. I think I'm finally understanding good e-mail style > > thanks to you and everyone else who has responded to emails > > glad to hear! :-) > > > > > > > You have too little space in the partition that contains /boot? > > > > > > > > > > What does "df -h" say? > > > > > > > > > > Andi > > > > > > > > This is what df -h returned: > > > > > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > > > tmpfs 784M 2.0M 782M 1% /run > > > > /dev/sda9 23G 17G 5.6G 75% / > > > > tmpfs 3.9G 45M 3.8G 2% /dev/shm > > > > tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock > > > > /dev/sda7 944M 761M 119M 87% /boot > > > > > > I wonder why your boot directory is so packed, even though 119M > > > should be enough. > > > > > > I don't why it is so packed either. I ran du -ah /boot/ and it returned: > > 272K /boot/config-6.2.0-34-generic > > 14M /boot/vmlinuz-6.6.0-rc1gilbert+ > > 0 /boot/initrd.img > > 276K /boot/config-6.6.0-rc1gilbert+ > > 14M /boot/vmlinuz-6.2.0-34-generic > > 184K /boot/memtest86+_multiboot.bin > > 7.6M /boot/System.map-6.2.0-26-generic > > 180K /boot/memtest86+.bin > > 184K /boot/memtest86+.elf > > 67M /boot/initrd.img-6.2.0-34-generic > > 7.7M /boot/System.map-6.2.0-34-generic > > du: cannot read directory '/boot/efi': Permission denied > > 1.0K /boot/efi > > 0 /boot/vmlinuz > > 7.6M /boot/System.map-6.6.0-rc1gilbert+ > > du: cannot read directory '/boot/lost+found': Permission denied > > 16K /boot/lost+found > > 14M /boot/vmlinuz-6.2.0-26-generic > > 4.0K /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/lsefimmap.mod > > 4.0K /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/setjmp.mod > > 12K /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/loadenv.mod > > ... > > > 4.0K /boot/grub/i386-pc/search_fs_uuid.mod > > 2.5M /boot/grub/i386-pc > > 11M /boot/grub > > 547M /boot/initrd.img-6.6.0-rc1gilbert+ > > 74M /boot/initrd.img-6.2.0-26-generic > > 272K /boot/config-6.2.0-26-generic > > > > I apologize for the overly long list > > that's a long list indeed. I don't know what all those files are, > but I don't think they are an issue. > > > > > /dev/sda11 60G 28G 30G 49% /home > > > > > > BTW, are you working in your home directory? > > > > > No, I'm not working in the home directory > > then I think this is the main issue. You have lots of free space > in your home directory, you should work there. I only work in my > home directory. > > I believe you weren't able to complete the compilation because > you were working in the root partition where you have less > space available. > > Andi > Hello Andi, Thank you for your response. So I'm not sure I understand what you mean by do all you work in the home directory so I will explain how I work now to see if that is what you mean. I have the staging respository in my home directory and I usually do all my compilation from inside the directory of the staging repository that is saved in my home directory. Is this what you mean by working from the home directory? or is there other setups I should be doing my home directory? Also I deleted the offending file in my /boot : 547M /boot/initrd.img-6.6.0-rc1gilbert+ and deleted its module directory in usr/lib/modules I realised it was too large compared to the other kernels and assumed that probably I didn't do its .config file properly which might have enabled more modules than is needed for it to run on my machine. this is the result of df -h after the deletion: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 784M 2.0M 782M 1% /run /dev/sda9 23G 11G 12G 47% / tmpfs 3.9G 193M 3.7G 5% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock /dev/sda7 944M 201M 678M 23% /boot /dev/sda11 60G 28G 30G 49% /home /dev/sda2 96M 32M 65M 33% /boot/efi tmpfs 784M 144K 784M 1% /run/user/1000 I want to generate a new .config file and recompile. I also realised that the staging repository I have on my machine is 28GB large is this normal? Thanks Gilbert