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[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 12:25:23 -0600
Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com> wrote:

> --On December 4, 2018 at 9:43:06 AM +0100 Michael Schuster 
> <michaelsprivate at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It seems the most disk consumption is in /boot/
> 
> # du -h /boot/
>  28K	/boot/defaults
> 2.0K	/boot/firmware
> 497M	/boot/kernel
> 2.0K	/boot/modules
> 2.0K	/boot/zfs
> 2.0K	/boot/dtb
>  91M	/boot/kernel.old
> 591M	/boot/
> 
this seems perfectly normal if you have a debug kernel installed. My
custom made kernel takes around 50% of this.

> I can remove /boot/kernel.old, right? (I'm not sure I will. Just
> asking.)

You could but it will leave you in a strange position of the new kernel
fails to boot.

Erich