boot at 99% warning problem ??

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Posted by Gazza-t, 05-21-2007, 10:09 AM
Hi I have a problem on my dedicated server, the boot is at 99% but i am not sure how to fix this problem. The server runs centos 4.5 final. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 228G 17G 199G 8% / /dev/sda1 31M 29M 492K 99% /boot Any advice appreciated, thank you
Posted by PrimaryVPS, 05-21-2007, 11:08 AM
It is fine, there is no major issue with that since that partition is 31mb and you used 29mb
Posted by Gazza-t, 05-21-2007, 02:11 PM
does seem close to max, just thought i would ask before it gets to 100% and get advice early. thank you for your reply
Posted by coryb, 05-21-2007, 05:05 PM
The next time you do a kernel upgrade on the machine you might run into a problem; it will complain that there is not enough space to install, IIRC. You probably have two or more kernels installed. To avoid problems in the future, you could remove at least one old kernel with RPM in order to leave room for a new kernel. Only do this if your current kernel is working out for you.
Posted by Bilco105, 05-22-2007, 03:50 AM
Just remove some of your older kernels. uname -a to see the current kernel version you're running. Then rpm -qa|grep kernel and remove some of the kernels that _dont_ match the uname. Cheers.
Posted by Gazza-t, 05-22-2007, 08:40 AM
thanks for your reply just checked and i have kernel 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL running boot is full of old kernels
Posted by Gazza-t, 05-22-2007, 08:47 AM
does using rpm -qa|grep kernel clean up the grub conf also or does that have to be edited seperate thank you
Posted by Gazza-t, 05-22-2007, 09:09 AM
ignore that put wrong command what i ment was:- using rpm -qa|grep kernel to show kernels then use rpm -e kernel-version but does this clean up the grub conf also or does that have to be edited seperate thank you Last edited by Gazza-t; 05-22-2007 at 09:16 AM.

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