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   Chris Elvidge to All   
   Re: update-initramfs and no space left o   
   11 Jul 24 19:58:30   
   
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   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   
      
      
      
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   Chris Elvidge, England   
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