[SOLVED]/BOOT WITH 77% IN USE (ZABBIX ALERTING)

[douglastos]

I am using CentOS 7 server which has 77% of use and zabbix is alerting me that the partition is growing.

Code: Select all

/dev/sda1       179M  127M   39M  77% /boot 

my question is, what can be "cleaned" in this directory!?!

[maikcat]

if there are multiple files starting with vmlinuz* then you have old kernels still installed.

you can use rpm -qa | grep ^kern to check which kernel packages are installed then remove them using rpm -e

Regards

Michael.

[mashiro2004]

I am using CentOS 7 server which has 77% of use and zabbix is alerting me that the partition is growing.

Code: Select all

/dev/sda1       179M  127M   39M  77% /boot 

my question is, what can be "cleaned" in this directory!?!

Have you old kernels?
Launch rpm -q kernel
and
ls -lh /boot

[douglastos]

Have you old kernels?
Launch rpm -q kernel
and
ls -lh /boot

is was exactly that, although the ideal is to have two kernel's, I was told in another forum! Thank you for the feedback !!!

follow the link of the other forum:
https://www.vivaolinux.com.br/topico/Ce ... m-20-livre

[mashiro2004]

Have you old kernels?
Launch rpm -q kernel
and
ls -lh /boot

is was exactly that, although the ideal is to have two kernel's, I was told in another forum! Thank you for the feedback !!!

follow the link of the other forum:
https://www.vivaolinux.com.br/topico/Ce ... m-20-livre

Good, yes, I also always keep at least 2 kernels

[TrevorH]

You can set how many to keep by using installonly_limit= in /etc/yum.conf. See man yum.conf

[TrevorH]

I just scrolled back and saw the df output for this. Your /boot is showing as 179MB. That's way too small.

The CentOS 6 default size was 500MB and the CentOS 7 /boot size defaults to 1GB.

Since CentOS 7 always installs at least one "rescue" kernel and the initramfs that goes with that is built with 'hostonly=no' it contains all drivers for all possible hardware and is around 55MB in size so the rescue kernel/initramfs want 60MB on their own. That leaves you 120MB for all normal kernels.

There is then a normal kernel and initramfs for each kernel version that's installed and each one of those is 6MB + the size of the initramfs which varies depending on the hardware it's installed on. I checked my systems and the sizes of the initramfs files for normal kernel entries is betwen 19 and 23MB so each kernel uses close to 30MB. That means your 179MB /boot can hold just under 4 kernels before it hits 100% full and the default yum installonly_limit is 5. Since you warn at 77% full and that's showing as 127MB in your post, you only have to have 2 kernels installed before you hit this limit.

Your /boot is too small.

[douglastos]

...
Your /boot is too small.

I agree with you @TrevorH plus the operator makes the equipment ready and is already in production, we do not have much to do, but a contour solution that is to remove the kernel.
Thank you for the feedback.