while running zypper up on a opensuse version 13.2 i got the following statement
Installation von kernel-desktop-3.16.7-29.1 fehlgeschlagen:
Fehler: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM fehlgeschlagen: installing package kernel-desktop-3.16.7-29.1.x86_64 needs 12MB on the /boot filesystem
what can i do now?
we need more memory - dont we
The way I read that, you require more disk space, not memory.
good day der fraser-bell
many many thanks for the answer - well (at the moment ) i do not sit in front of the notebook. BUT i will do some checks within the next few days…
hmmm - guess that the partitiion is wrong - i will have to check the partition-table
what do you say … ?
What file system are you using for root? Or, more specifically, are you using Snapper for snapshots, and is your root partition filling up with snapshots?
If “/boot” is a separate partition, then you might need to delete an older kernel (but not the current one) to free up some disk space.
If “/boot” is part of the root file system, then you just need to free up some space, as others have suggested.
hello dear Fraser-Bell hello dear nrickert, good evening;)
many many thanks - at the moment i do not sit in front of the notebook.
but as i see in your comments - i just have to do some checks… - guess i have to run
df -h command and others more
guess that i begin with df -h command: it shows disk usage in human readable format and
fdisk command shows all the disks used in the linux partition.
example giving df -h command the following output has been shown:
But when i am giving df -h command the following output has been shown:
note: this is only and example. - not the real one:
**Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/loop0 18G 2.9G 14G 18% /
udev 1.4G 4.0K 1.4G 1% /dev
tmpfs 576M 888K 575M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 1.5G 160K 1.5G 1% /run/shm
none 100M 56K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sda5 140G 52G 88G 38% /host
/dev/sr0 225M 225M 0 100% /media/aritradas/McAfee
/dev/sda3 150G 59G 91G 40% /media/aritradas/OS**
At the same time when i am giving fdisk -l command the following output has been shown:
note: this is only and example. - not the real one:
**Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 257039 128488+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 258048 20979711 10360832 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 20979712 333627391 156323840 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 333627392 625139711 145756160 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 333629440 625139711 145755136 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT**
in other words - i do some checks to see how the system uses the space…
i do this at the beginning of the new week - and show all the outcomes here…
untill then… cu 