ravinandan
May 28th, 2010, 07:36 AM
Hello All,
I'm trying to compile and install new kernel 2.6.32.14 in my ubuntu karmic.
After compiling source and executing the deb package for the kernel, I tried to run update-initramfs but got "No space on device" error.
My /boot partition size is 100 MB and is currently having 37MB free.
After I run the update-initramfs command I noticed that space in /boot got depleted and soon came to naught which led to no space error thrown by gzip.
I believe the resultant gzipped archive is no more than 20MB...then why is the whole 37MB is being used up? Please correct me If I'm wrong here otherwise I might be left with no choice but to increase the size of /boot partition.
Is there anyway I can make update-initramfs to use the temporary space from other drives(may be /tmp) when creating gzipped archive?
Would appreciate if someone would help me on this.
Thanks,
Ravi
I'm trying to compile and install new kernel 2.6.32.14 in my ubuntu karmic.
After compiling source and executing the deb package for the kernel, I tried to run update-initramfs but got "No space on device" error.
My /boot partition size is 100 MB and is currently having 37MB free.
After I run the update-initramfs command I noticed that space in /boot got depleted and soon came to naught which led to no space error thrown by gzip.
I believe the resultant gzipped archive is no more than 20MB...then why is the whole 37MB is being used up? Please correct me If I'm wrong here otherwise I might be left with no choice but to increase the size of /boot partition.
Is there anyway I can make update-initramfs to use the temporary space from other drives(may be /tmp) when creating gzipped archive?
Would appreciate if someone would help me on this.
Thanks,
Ravi