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Mark Stodola <[log in to unmask]>
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Mark Stodola <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:34:28 -0600
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Jeremy Wellner wrote:
> I have a sadly newb question to put forward to the list.
>
> In setting up SL 6.1 for my workstation I made the decision to not use 
> the dell fakeraid card that was built in and instead used the built in 
> soft raid with SL to make RAID1 mirrors of all the basic partitions so 
> I would have a rather robust workstation.
>
> This plan, has hit a snag at this point however because with the 
> latest kernel update, it is unable to apply because my /boot is too small.
>
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/md2              385G  4.2G  361G   2% /
> tmpfs                  12G  220K   12G   1% /dev/shm
> /dev/md0               97M   83M  9.8M  90% /boot
> /dev/md3              1.4T  164G  1.2T  13% /home
>
> So since this doesn't have a lot on it yet, I'm ok with a 
> nuke/pave/reinstall in the name of learning, however I'm wondering 
> what a decent mount layout should look like.
>
> This is a machine with 24GB of RAM and a pair of 2 TB HDDs.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jeremy Wellner
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That seems like a pretty full /boot, maybe you should uninstall some 
older, unused kernels.  100M should be plenty of space for /boot.

-Mark

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Mr. Mark V. Stodola
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