Re: [PATCH] Core Update 169: Regenerate initrds and save space on ARM

Peter / Michael,

• It is not entirely error-proof (out of disk space, out of memory, system being rebooted too early)

Is it possible to add a Disk Space check before doing an upgrade?

I’ve been bit twice by running out of disk space mid-upgrade. I was remotely upgrading a family member's system from CU 163 to CU 167 and got stuck ½ way.

Here is my recent oops:

``` Message from syslogd@ipfire4 at Fri May 13 14:59:33 2022 ... ipfire4 ipfire: core-update-164: ERROR cannot update because not enough free space on root. May 13 14:59:33 ipfire4 pakfire: PAKFIRE ERROR: Returncode: 2. Sorry. Please search our forum to find a solution for this problem. May 13 14:59:55 ipfire4 sshd[31097]: Received signal 15; terminating. ```

Jon

On Jul 7, 2022, at 8:19 AM, Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org mailto:michael.tremer@ipfire.org> wrote:

Hello,

Indeed we don’t need to ship them, we can generate them instead.

But that has of course some downsides, too:

• It is slow
• It is not entirely error-proof (out of disk space, out of memory, system being rebooted too early)

I do not really have much of a preference. The only thing I want to say is that ARM needs to get their shit together and being able to load a regular image instead of asking for extra commands here - or build that into dracut.

-Michael

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On 7 Jul 2022, at 07:48, Peter Müller <peter.mueller@ipfire.org mailto:peter.mueller@ipfire.org> wrote:

Hello *,

to my understanding, we do not need to ship "linux-initrd" if we can easily rebuild those on the systems anyway. I would prefer the latter, since that keeps the update smaller.

This was also raised somewhere in the community a while ago, but I am unable to find the correspondent thread at the moment.

How do we proceed here?

Thanks, and best regards, Peter Müller

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https://community.ipfire.org/t/again-with-the-file-system-full-core-169/8186 https://community.ipfire.org/t/again-with-the-file-system-full-core-169/8186

Signed-off-by: Peter Müller peter.mueller@ipfire.org

config/rootfiles/core/169/update.sh | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/config/rootfiles/core/169/update.sh b/config/rootfiles/core/169/update.sh index 3902e2d45..50f0bd8a4 100644 --- a/config/rootfiles/core/169/update.sh +++ b/config/rootfiles/core/169/update.sh @@ -150,6 +150,19 @@ ldconfig # Apply sysctl changes /etc/init.d/sysctl start

+# Regenerate all initrds +dracut --regenerate-all --force +case "$(uname -m)" in

• armv*)

• mkimage -A arm -T ramdisk -C lzma -d /boot/initramfs-${KVER}-ipfire.img /boot/uInit-${KVER}-ipfire
  

• rm /boot/initramfs-${KVER}-ipfire.img
  

• ;;
  

• aarch64)

• mkimage -A arm64 -T ramdisk -C lzma -d /boot/initramfs-${KVER}-ipfire.img /boot/uInit-${KVER}-ipfire
  

• # dont remove initramfs because grub need this to boot.
  

• ;;
  

+esac

# Start services telinit u /etc/init.d/firewall restart