Raspberry Pi Asked on November 5, 2021
My /boot partition on my Raspberry model 3b is running low storage. I want to prevent running into feature troubles. I cant find any solution that fits my situation. Note that I’m pretty much a noob on a raspberry.
output of df -h
pi@raspberrypi:/boot $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 30G 6.8G 22G 25% /
devtmpfs 431M 0 431M 0% /dev
tmpfs 464M 0 464M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 464M 48M 417M 11% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 464M 0 464M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1 15G 2.3G 13G 16% /media/usb-drive
/dev/mmcblk0p1 60M 55M 5.4M 92% /boot
tmpfs 93M 0 93M 0% /run/user/1000
Output of ls -la /boot
pi@raspberrypi:/boot $ ls -la /boot
total 54164
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 16384 Jan 1 1970 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Apr 1 12:27 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25033 Jul 21 01:02 bcm2708-rpi-b.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25296 Jul 21 01:02 bcm2708-rpi-b-plus.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24644 Jul 21 01:02 bcm2708-rpi-b-rev1.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24766 Jul 21 01:02 bcm2708-rpi-cm.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24738 Jul 21 01:02 bcm2708-rpi-zero.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25931 Jul 21 01:02 bcm2708-rpi-zero-w.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26299 Jul 21 01:02 bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26448 Jul 21 01:02 bcm2710-rpi-2-b.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27946 Jul 21 01:02 bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28565 Jul 21 01:02 bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26255 Jul 21 01:02 bcm2710-rpi-cm3.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 47437 Jul 21 01:02 bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 47542 Jul 21 01:02 bcm2711-rpi-cm4.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 52480 Jul 21 01:03 bootcode.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 136 Apr 1 12:36 cmdline.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1630 Oct 26 2017 config.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18693 Jul 21 01:02 COPYING.linux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3148 Jul 21 01:03 fixup4cd.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5407 Jul 21 01:03 fixup4.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8414 Jul 21 01:03 fixup4db.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8418 Jul 21 01:03 fixup4x.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3148 Jul 21 01:03 fixup_cd.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7274 Jul 21 01:03 fixup.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10266 Jul 21 01:03 fixup_db.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10266 Jul 21 01:03 fixup_x.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 103 Feb 26 2016 issue.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5599624 Jul 21 01:02 kernel7.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5997544 Jul 21 01:02 kernel7l.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15483392 Jul 21 01:02 kernel8.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5247472 Jul 21 01:02 kernel.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1594 Jul 21 01:03 LICENCE.broadcom
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18974 Feb 26 2016 LICENSE.oracle
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 24576 Jul 21 01:03 overlays
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 819100 Jul 21 01:03 start4cd.elf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3778856 Jul 21 01:03 start4db.elf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2277376 Jul 21 01:03 start4.elf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3036168 Jul 21 01:03 start4x.elf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 819100 Jul 21 01:03 start_cd.elf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4850760 Jul 21 01:03 start_db.elf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3001440 Jul 21 01:03 start.elf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3759720 Jul 21 01:03 start_x.elf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Jan 20 2018 'System Volume Information'
Output of dpkg --list 'linux-image*'
pi@raspberrypi:/boot $ dpkg --list 'linux-image*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
un linux-image <none> <none> (no description available)
Output of sudo apt-get autoremove
pi@raspberrypi:/boot $ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Output of cat /etc/*-release
pi@raspberrypi:/boot $ cat /etc/*-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="10"
VERSION="10 (buster)"
VERSION_CODENAME=buster
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
Did I do something wrong and what can I do to prevent a full /boot partition?
Thanks in advance!
You obviously ignored the Foundation advice to perform a fresh install.
It is futile "cleaning" the boot partition because every time you try to upgrade the firmware the files will be restored.
Your only option is to adjust the partition sizes (which can't be done on the Pi).
You will need a Linux computer.
There are numerous other hidden problems with attempting version upgrades (which is why the Foundation does not attempt to support it). You would be better to perform a fresh install.
If you do decide to stick with the existing image you could use the procedure I use to create a Backup image of SD Card.
This creates an installable image with the correct partition sizes for Buster and it can be done on the Pi (with external storage for the image).
Answered by Milliways on November 5, 2021
Burried in the Buster release notes for the version 2019-06-20 is a small entry that states:
Boot partition size set to 256M
This is to allow for larger software upgrades (shades of Windows 10) and more software (e.g. Pi 4 firmware) to be shipped as defaults on the FAT32 portion of the SD card.
If you do not want to reload your card from scratch then I would look to use gparted to resize the partitions on this card. You will need a Pi or a Linux box running a GUI and a micro SD to USB adapter
sudo apt update && sudo apt full-install && sudo apt autoremove && sudo reboot
sudo apt update && sudo apt install gparted
Note: This is not possible to do on a Mac with Catalina and Paragon extFS support - Disk Utility does not allow resizing of the partitions.
Answered by user115418 on November 5, 2021
The ideal way to do this is to expand the filesystem, which requires moving the second partition.
However, if you don't want to bother with that, a lot of the space is taken up by the biggest files, which are the kernels and start_elfs. If this card is only used in one Pi, you don't need all of those. If it is a single core model, you only need kernel.img
, not the 7 or 8; if it is a Pi 2 or 3, you need kernel7.img
(I notice there's also a kernel7l.img
in the current version). It it's a Pi 4, you only need kernel8.img
.
Likewise, there are two sets of start_elf
files, one for the Pi 4 and one for everything else. All told you can probably delete 15-20 MB worth of space.
Note that they may get replaced by the distro when the kernel is upgraded.
Answered by goldilocks on November 5, 2021
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