Re: [Outreachy Applicant] NEEDS SOME CLARIFICATIONS

[Gilbert Adikankwu <gilbertadikankwu@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 08:26:15AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2023, Gilbert Adikankwu wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> When you start compiling the Linux kernel it gets very big.  But maybe you
> reduced your config at some point, but didn't delete the no longer needed
> .o files?  You could try make clean and then recompile.
> 
> julia

Hello Julia,

Thank you for your response, I will do as you have suggested.