Fedora

I recently ran into a classic problem on my long-running Fedora installation: my /boot partition was full. Back when I set up the system (around Fedora 20), 400MiB was more than enough. Now, with modern kernels, it can barely hold two versions, let alone the default three that Fedora manages. This meant I couldn’t run system updates. The challenge was that my disk was partitioned with /dev/sda1 for /boot and /dev/sda2 as a single large LVM physical volume for my /root and /home filesystems. This setup prevents a simple resize of /dev/sda1. ...

While I was performing an upgrade of Fedora 41 to 42 on my laptop, I noticed there was package installed since Fedora 38. This package, zfs-dkms-2.2.0-1.fc38.noarch, needed to be removed as it blocked this Fedora 42 upgrade. TL;DR - The solution is to use --noscripts option with rpm command. If you want to see how the zfs-dkms package removed, follow along. Here’s the info about the package: root@benjo:/etc/yum.repos.d# dnf info zfs-dkms Updating and loading repositories: Repositories loaded. Installed packages Name : zfs-dkms Epoch : 0 Version : 2.2.0 Release : 1.fc38 Architecture : noarch Installed size : 56.9 MiB Source : zfs-dkms-2.2.0-1.fc38.src.rpm From repository : zfs Summary : Kernel module(s) (dkms) URL : https://github.com/openzfs/zfs License : CDDL Description : This package contains the dkms ZFS kernel modules. Vendor : <NULL> Available packages Name : zfs-dkms Epoch : 0 Version : 2.3.2 Release : 1.fc41 Architecture : noarch Download size : 31.0 MiB Installed size : 58.6 MiB Source : zfs-dkms-2.3.2-1.fc41.src.rpm Repository : zfs Summary : Kernel module(s) (dkms) URL : https://github.com/openzfs/zfs License : CDDL Description : This package contains the dkms ZFS kernel modules. Vendor Let’s try to remove it normally: ...

Earlier today while performing the update on my Fedora desktop, I encountered an issue with the new kernel update. As a result, the initramfs was not generated for the new installed kernel. So, I’ll share with you how to rebuild or generate the initramfs while fixing real issue on my Fedora workstation. First, here is an output showing the source of the issue. It might not be clear of what’s going on, but that’s okay as it’s not the main focus of this blog post. ...

Happy New Year 2024! This is going to be a very short post on how to use ‘df’ command to display the disk space usage in megabytes. To display the output in MB (megabytes), we can use the -m flag with the df command as the following: ❯ df -m Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 4 0 4 0% /dev tmpfs 852 0 852 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 341 6 336 2% /run /dev/mapper/almalinux-root 7578 2068 5511 28% / /dev/vda2 1014 280 735 28% /boot /dev/vda1 599 8 592 2% /boot/efi tmpfs 171 0 171 0% /run/user/1000 It’s simple, isn’t it?

I’m running KDE Plasma Version 5.27.8 on Fedora 38. It’s been very stable and Plasma crashes a lot less comparing to the old day when running Plasma 5.0 on (older) Kubuntu. Anyway, today, my Plasma’s taskbar froze and I needed to restarted. Instead of logging out and logging back in, I found a way to restart the Plasmashell. Here is the command which worked for me for this Plasma version: ...