Not enough space in /boot file system

[YTHuR]

Hello!

I've been having a problem updating for the last few days. Everytime I try "yum update" it downloads the packages I need and when it tries to install them it stops because of this errors:

installing package kernel-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 needs 5MB on the /boot filesystem
installing package libuser-devel-0.56.13-1.fc12.x86_64 needs 5MB on the /boot filesystem
installing package compiz-0.8.2-21.fc12.x86_64 needs 5MB on the /boot filesystem
installing package libsidplay-1.36.57-21.fc12.x86_64 needs 5MB on the /boot filesystem
installing package rhythmbox-0.12.6-2.fc12.x86_64 needs 5MB on the /boot filesystem
installing package kernel-firmware-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.noarch needs 5MB on the /boot filesystem
installing package libgcj-devel-4.4.2-20.fc12.x86_64 needs 5MB on the /boot filesystem
installing package libdrm-2.4.15-8.fc12.i686 needs 5MB on the /boot filesystem
installing package kdesdk-utils-4.3.4-1.fc12.x86_64 needs 5MB on the /boot filesystem
installing package libgomp-4.4.2-20.fc12.x86_64 needs 5MB on the /boot filesystem
installing package PackageKit-glib-0.5.5-1.fc12.x86_64 needs 5MB on the /boot filesystem
installing package ghdl-grt-0.28-0.131svn.1.fc12.x86_64 needs 5MB on the /boot filesystem
installing package PackageKit-qt-0.5.5-1.fc12.x86_64 needs 5MB on the /boot filesystem
installing package unrar-3.8.5-5.fc12.x86_64 needs 5MB on the /boot filesystem
installing package kernel-devel-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 needs 5MB on the /boot filesystem
installing package selinux-policy-targeted-3.6.32-59.fc12.noarch needs 5MB on the /boot filesystem
installing package pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-0.9.21-2.fc12.x86_64 needs 5MB on the /boot filesystem
installing package cpp-4.4.2-20.fc12.x86_64 needs 5MB on the /boot filesystem

What can I do? I have all the other updates blocked by this.

Thanks a lot!

[mouse_runner]

you need to resize /boot partition

EDIT

gnu parted can do the job

@localhost ~]$ yum search parted
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
adobe-linux-i386                                                                                                                                     |  951 B     00:00
fwbuilder                                                                                                                                            |  951 B     00:00
google                                                                                                                                               |  951 B     00:00
kde-stable                                                                                                                                           | 2.1 kB     00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates                                                                                                                               | 3.8 kB     00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                                                                                                                            | 3.8 kB     00:00
skype                                                                                                                                                |  951 B     00:00
updates/metalink                                                                                                                                     |  20 kB     00:00
virtualbox                                                                                                                                           |  951 B     00:00
wicd                                                                                                                                                 |  951 B     00:00
============================================================================= Matched: parted ==============================================================================
gparted.i586 : Gnome Partition Editor
parted.i586 : The GNU disk partition manipulation program
parted-devel.i586 : Files for developing apps which will manipulate disk partitions
pyparted.i586 : Python module for GNU parted
qtparted.i586 : Partition Magic clone written in C++ using the Qt toolkit

[YTHuR]

I don't know how to do that. I tried with gparted, but I can't have it bigger than it is now. I think I need to resize my other partition, but it won't let me do it.

[thesun]

This was exactly the same problem I was having when I posted about whether to use parted or not. Did something happen recently in default /boot sizes? I never had this issue before and almost always just used the default settings for partition sizes.

@YTHuR: Your /boot may be ext3, in which case apparently parted won't resize it. Check that by using tune2fs to remove the journal and then mount it as a ext2 filesystem and see if parted will let you resize.

Or...it could be due to other partitions needing to resize, like you say. But whatever you do, be very careful to back up your important data in case something goes wrong. Parted can totally erase stuff, so make sure you know what you are doing. I don't know, for example, if when you resize you will lose the data...in which case you may need to reinstall GRUB loader and so on.

Hope this helps!

[scott32746]

May need to remove an OLD kernel or two ..

[YTHuR]

I think I only have the current kernel. At least, that is what "uname -r" tells me.

I will try what thesun says, but in other case I might format the whole computer and try a more reasonable distribution of partitions.

Thanks a lot.

[SomeDamFool]

uname -r only shows the kernel in use. Try /usr/bin/system-config-boot, the default is to keep 3 kernels. I had the problem upgrading to F12 and after I manually removed all but the current kernel everything installed OK.

Mike

[scott32746]

Give this a try

TO LIST w/RPM:
# rpm -q kernel

TO REMOVE w/RPM:
rpm -e kernel-XXX.XXX.XXX


TO LIST w/YUM:
# yum list kernel.*

TO REMOVE w/YUM:
# yum remove kernel-XXX.XXX.XXX

[YTHuR]

Thanks a lot. I managed to remove the old kernels (I don't know why, but I was sure I had already did that when I upgraded to F12) by using "rpm -qa |grep kernel" and then "yum remove kernel-XXX...".

Again, thanks a lot to everybody.

[nacourtney]

You can also use the following command:

package-cleanup --oldkernels --count=3 --keepdevel