Bug#1135141: please be more careful with available disk space on /boot

From	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#1135141: please be more careful with available disk space on /boot
Date	2026-04-29 22:10 +0200
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On Tue, 2026-04-28 at 12:18 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
[...]
> I would very much like to know how that happened.  update-initramfs
> creates the new image under a temporary name and then renames it over
> the old image (on success) or deletes it (on failure).  So it should not
> be possible for the boot loader to pick up an incomplete image.
> 
> Do you have any log or other information about the sequence of events
> leading to this?
[...]

Also which filesystem is used for /boot?

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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there are so many of them.

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Bug#1135141: please be more careful with available disk space on /boot Harald Dunkel <harri@afaics.de> - 2026-04-28 10:00 +0200
  Bug#1135141: please be more careful with available disk space on /boot Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2026-04-28 12:30 +0200
    Bug#1135141: please be more careful with available disk space on /boot Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2026-04-29 22:10 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#1135141: please be more careful with available  disk space on /boot "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2026-04-28 12:30 +0200

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