[CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

Wed Mar 9 08:20:15 UTC 2011
Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at SoftDux.com>

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch> wrote:
>> Yes...thank you for the suggestion...since that was the cause of
>> my problem in the first place!!  I should have known better; all
>> I had to do was remove some of the outdated kernel files.  And
>> when I did the dumb thing of deleting the /boot files, they were
>> moved into the "protected" .Trash-boot directory.
>
> OK, now let us know exactly what you have. Is it CentOS 4 as I expected?
> If so, the listing of files in /boot should look like so:
>
> [root at abc ~]# ls -laR /boot/
> /boot/:
> total 3771
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root root    1024 Mar  3 11:31 .
> drwxr-xr-x  24 root root    4096 Mar  3 11:37 ..
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   51676 Feb 18 07:41 config-2.6.9-100.EL
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    1024 Mar  3 11:31 grub
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1364958 Mar  3 11:20 initrd-2.6.9-100.EL.img
> drwx------   2 root root   12288 Jul  8  2005 lost+found
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root    9371 Aug 13  2006 message
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root    9371 Aug 13  2006 message.ja
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   67797 Feb 18 07:41 symvers-2.6.9-100.EL.gz
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  770652 Feb 18 07:41 System.map-2.6.9-100.EL
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1538264 Feb 18 07:41 vmlinuz-2.6.9-100.EL
>
> /boot/grub:
> total 198
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   1024 Mar  3 11:31 .
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root root   1024 Mar  3 11:31 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root     82 Aug  9  2005 device.map
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   7956 Aug  9  2005 e2fs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   7684 Aug  9  2005 fat_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   6996 Aug  9  2005 ffs_stage1_5
> -rw-------  1 root root    589 Mar  3 11:31 grub.conf
> -rw-------  1 root root    593 Aug  9  2005 grub.conf.orig
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   7028 Aug  9  2005 iso9660_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   8448 Aug  9  2005 jfs_stage1_5
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     11 Aug  9  2005 menu.lst -> ./grub.conf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   7188 Aug  9  2005 minix_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   9396 Aug  9  2005 reiserfs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   3605 Aug 13  2006 splash.xpm.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root    512 Aug  9  2005 stage1
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 103816 Aug  9  2005 stage2
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   7272 Aug  9  2005 ufs2_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   6612 Aug  9  2005 vstafs_stage1_5
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   9308 Aug  9  2005 xfs_stage1_5
>
> /boot/lost+found:
> total 14
> drwx------  2 root root 12288 Jul  8  2005 .
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  1024 Mar  3 11:31 ..
>
> 1) I don't know which tool you have used to move things to "Trash" but you
> should be aware that it may well be the case that some permissions and or
> file types like symlinks may not be correct after recovering from "Trash".
>
> 2) The directory "lost+found" can be recreated using the command
> 'mklost+found'
>
> 3) I'm not sure on how to make grub work again, but maybe some steps qre
> required after copying everything back to /boot. I hope someone else can
> give you better info about this.
>
> Simon
>
>


Wouldn't it have been easier to reinstall the kernel & grub, i.e.:

yum reinstall kernel grub

Surely if yum reinstalls it, it would re-create the permissions &
symlinks as well?

I haven't done, or tried this before, but it might work?

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Rudi Ahlers
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