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Subject: Re: update-initramfs and no space left on device.
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 06:28:03 +0100
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On 11/07/2024 19:58, Chris Elvidge wrote:
> On 11/07/2024 at 18:37, mm0fmf wrote:
>> Ah the joy of patch-Tuesday. Or patch-Thursday in my case. So assorted 
>> Windows machines updated I thought I'd better check some Linux 
>> machines. The other week a colleague texted me and pointed out a nasty 
>> SSH regression being exploited. So I sat in Lyon Airport waiting for 
>> the gate to be announced and updated my Pi ZeroW gateway and some VMs. 
>> I just did the SSH updates. It's cool being able to control your 
>> machines from a distance but using the laptop and a phone with roaming 
>> data is asking for something to take you offline when you don't want. 
>> Today was time to catch up with other updates....
>>
>> All was fine apart from the Pi Zero W which gave an error when running 
>> update-initramfs claiming there was no space on the device when doing
>>
>> "update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.6.31+rpt-rpi-v7l"
>>
>> There was plenty of space on the device so I tried again. No luck. 
>> Various ideas tried but it failed at the same place every time. I 
>> pulled out another SDcard, wrote the image to it, put in the Pi, 
>> booted and then did an update and upgrade. It failed again at the same 
>> place. So it wasn't the SDcard that was misbehaving. I flailed about 
>> miserably wondering what it was till I found this webpage.
>>
>> https://hillenius.net/post/nospaceleft/
>>
>> I followed that and sure enough, it fixed everything. What I don't yet 
>> understand is what I had done to get to this place. And if it's just 
>> started for me, are other people going to find themselves in the same 
>> situation real soon now?
>>
>> I run '2024-03-15-raspios-bookworm-armhf-lite.img' with a few tweaks 
>> to place logs etc. on the ram disk and I've been running apt update 
>> etc. on that since end of May. Whatever, after today's update it was 
>> not going to work unless I followed those changes to initramfs-tools.
>>
>> Hopefully this may help the next Pi user who gets bitten by this.
>>
>>
> 
> We've known about this for ages: change MODULES=most to MODULES=dep in 
> /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
> 
> 
> 
Who's "we"?