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CachyOS boot partition usage limit has exceeded (limine-snapper-notify) (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Comexs@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I don't know what else to say or what other logs to give other that what I have below. Thank you for the help. limine-snapper-notify image

  ~                                                                                                                                11:38:29
❮ sudo limine-snapper-sync 
Stop creating a snapshot boot entry because the boot partition usage limit 85.0% is exceeded.
Saved: /boot/8e894020c9ab48be8cae43e3b9a5598f/limine_history/snapshots.json
Updated: /boot/limine.conf
  ~                                                                                                                                11:38:42
❮ sudo limine-snapper-info

Version           : 1.20.0
Manifest version  : 1.3.0
UUID              : 619cf237-3877-416c-a318-6b2aab55db2a
Last snapshot     : ID: 498, date: 2025-09-26 23:28:22
Snapshots         : 0 (max 8)
ESP usage         : 45.4% of 2.00 GiB (max 85.0%)
Unused files      : 0
Missed files      : 0
Corrupted files   : 0

  ~                                                                                                                                11:38:54
❮ df -h /boot
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme1n1p1  2.0G  928M  1.1G  46% /boot
  ~                                                                                                                                11:39:01
❮ sudo limine-snapper-list

 ID │ Date      │ Description 
────┼───────────┼─────────────
  ~                                                                                                                                11:41:51
❮ lsblk -f
NAME        FSTYPE FSVER LABEL   UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
# I also have a windows drive nvme0n1 and sda is a HDD for media.
zram0       swap   1     zram0   e3b51290-5582-4a70-90bd-e5ab248bf116                [SWAP]
nvme1n1                                                                              
├─nvme1n1p1 vfat   FAT32         6439-85CB                               1.1G    45% /boot
└─nvme1n1p2 btrfs                619cf237-3877-416c-a318-6b2aab55db2a    309G    66% /home
                                                                                     /root
                                                                                     /var/cache
                                                                                     /var/log
                                                                                     /srv
                                                                                     /var/tmp
                                                                                     /
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[–] Comexs@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Then what’s taking up all the space?

I don't have even the slightest idea of what is take up all the space. My main problem isn't that the snapshot feature isn't work but the fact that I don't know why its saying 85% of the boot partition has been usage up is my main concern. Just like you said I could just increase the size of the partition but that might just delay my issue until later and then I would have the same issue but twice the size.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

du -hsc /boot/*

[–] Comexs@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children) 
  ~   
❮ sudo du -hsc /boot
928M    /boot
928M    total
  ~  
❮ sudo snapper list-configs
Config │ Subvolume
───────┼──────────
root   │ /
  ~ 
❮ sudo du -hsc /.snapshots/
237G    /.snapshots/
237G    total
  ~ 
❮ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev              16G     0   16G   0% /dev
run              16G  2.6M   16G   1% /run
efivarfs        128K   69K   55K  57% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/nvme1n1p2  930G  599G  327G  65% /
tmpfs            16G     0   16G   0% /dev/shm
none            1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service
none            1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-resolved.service
/dev/nvme1n1p2  930G  599G  327G  65% /srv
tmpfs            16G  140K   16G   1% /tmp
/dev/nvme1n1p2  930G  599G  327G  65% /var/tmp
/dev/nvme1n1p2  930G  599G  327G  65% /root
/dev/nvme1n1p2  930G  599G  327G  65% /home
/dev/nvme1n1p2  930G  599G  327G  65% /var/cache
/dev/nvme1n1p2  930G  599G  327G  65% /var/log
/dev/nvme1n1p1  2.0G  928M  1.1G  46% /boot
tmpfs           3.1G  1.2G  2.0G  38% /run/user/1000
❮ sudo btrfs fi usage /.snapshots/
Overall:
    Device size:                 929.51GiB
    Device allocated:            765.50GiB
    Device unallocated:          164.01GiB
    Device missing:                  0.00B
    Device slack:                  3.00KiB
    Used:                        597.92GiB
    Free (estimated):            326.24GiB      (min: 244.23GiB)
    Free (statfs, df):           326.23GiB
    Data ratio:                       1.00
    Metadata ratio:                   2.00
    Global reserve:              512.00MiB      (used: 0.00B)
    Multiple profiles:                  no

Data,single: Size:754.01GiB, Used:591.78GiB (78.49%)
   /dev/nvme1n1p2        754.01GiB

Metadata,DUP: Size:5.74GiB, Used:3.07GiB (53.47%)
   /dev/nvme1n1p2         11.47GiB

System,DUP: Size:8.00MiB, Used:112.00KiB (1.37%)
   /dev/nvme1n1p2         16.00MiB

Unallocated:
   /dev/nvme1n1p2        164.01GiB
[–] kumi@feddit.online 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Here, you dropped this: /*

BTW ncdu -x /boot

[–] Comexs@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Here, you dropped this: /*

Oh, I didn't notice.

$ du -hsc /boot/*
927M    /boot/8e894020c9ab48be8cae43e3b9a5598f
300K    /boot/amd-ucode.img
820K    /boot/EFI
4.0K    /boot/limine.conf
4.0K    /boot/limine.conf.old
180K    /boot/limine-splash.png
4.0K    /boot/System Volume Information
928M    total

$ du -hsc /boot/8e894020c9ab48be8cae43e3b9a5598f/*
12K     /boot/8e894020c9ab48be8cae43e3b9a5598f/limine_history
333M    /boot/8e894020c9ab48be8cae43e3b9a5598f/linux-cachyos
262M    /boot/8e894020c9ab48be8cae43e3b9a5598f/linux-cachyos-lts
333M    /boot/8e894020c9ab48be8cae43e3b9a5598f/linux-cachyos-rt-bore
927M    total
[–] kumi@feddit.online 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My guess is some firmware or modules that just makes it that big and if you want room for snapshots you need to resize (or uninstall some variant if not needed). OS installer might have too small default size for a setup like this.

300MBish for a kernel is totally normal and you have 3 variants installed.