Re: Core 122 updates

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hello Fred,

yes, this might indeed be an issue.

The updater will catch that and not install the update if not enough
disk space is available on either / or /boot.

So you can try, but it might make sense to reinstall or if you are very
brave remove the old kernel and then install the update :)

-Michael

On Thu, 2018-08-02 at 14:57 -0400, Kienker, Fred wrote:
> FYI – some of the very old firewalls, installed long ago before there was an x86-64 version, have VERY small /boot partitions. This may pose issues updating to Core 122.
>  
> This screen shot was taken from a very old IPFire system running the x586 version:
>  
> [root(a)fw ~]# df -h
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> devtmpfs       1001M  4.0K 1001M   1% /dev
> tmpfs          1006M   12K 1006M   1% /dev/shm
> tmpfs          1006M  264K 1006M   1% /run
> /dev/sda3       2.0G 1001M  840M  55% /
> /dev/sda1        24M   18M  4.4M  81% /boot
> /dev/sda4        71G   52G   16G  78% /var
> none            8.0M   12K  8.0M   1% /var/lock
> none           1006M   16K 1006M   1% /var/log/vnstat
> none           1006M   32M  975M   4% /var/log/rrd
>  
> Note that the /boot partition is only 24M in total and has only 4.4M free.
>  
> Michael’s posting on the website about maybe it is time for a “clean” reinstall is very much to the point. But this is very hard to do with these older systems. I’m not sure it is possible to install 122 then restore a backup from 120, but I may well be wrong.
> Best regards,
> Fred
>