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    • A
      artgamer2009
      last edited by artgamer2009

      hi im reposting because i dident give any info about my pi soo.. yeah here it goes
      again....
      i wanted to place a driver in the boot directory but it seems to be full...
      do someone know wich files can be deleted?
      thank you!
      info (i told ya):
      Pi Model or other hardware: 3 model b
      Power Supply used: 0.3 amp charger (got included with my kit)
      RetroPie Version Used:4.1 (i guess?)
      Built From:stock retropie
      USB Devices connected:only my controller
      Controller used: xbox 360 controller wired
      Error messages received:none
      Guide used: driver tutorial from etaprime on how to install driver for the gamehat
      File: none!
      Emulator: also none! (rlly?)
      Attachment of config files: none
      How to replicate the problem:idk
      thanks again!
      bye!

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      • ClydeC
        Clyde
        last edited by

        This command will delete any older kernels that aren't used anymore:

        sudo apt autoremove
        

        I wouldn't delete any files on /boot manually, as this can easily break your system.

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        • mituM
          mitu Global Moderator
          last edited by

          How much space do you have free on your /boot partition and how large is the file you're trying to copy ? On a regular RetroPie install, the boot partition is 36M, with only 22M taken. A regular Linux kernel has less than 5M, so any driver should be able to fit into the 10M left.

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          • ClydeC
            Clyde @mitu
            last edited by Clyde

            @mitu Did the size of /boot change in Retropie since April 2018? Because the /boot partition of my stock Retropie 4.4 that I installed in April 2018 has a size of 57 MB.

            $ df -h | grep boot
            /dev/mmcblk0p1   57M   40M   18M  69% /boot
            
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            • mituM
              mitu Global Moderator @Clyde
              last edited by

              @Clyde Actually I was wrongly reading the numbers - 36M is the free space. So, indeed, the bootpartition is 57M (the Raspbian default), with only 22M taken - a whole 36M free on a default install.

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              • ClydeC
                Clyde @mitu
                last edited by Clyde

                @mitu Thanks for the clarification. There may be less free space on an regularly updated Retropie like mine. I wondered why my /boot has 40M used space although I cleaned it up with sudo apt autoremove. Apart from the kernel and the firmware files start*, the only files that are bigger than 1M are firmware files for the RPi 4 (start4*, see https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/boot_folder.md), which should be new since the RPi 4 didn't exist in 2018.

                $ du -ch /boot/*
                24K     /boot/bcm2708-rpi-b.dtb
                24K     /boot/bcm2708-rpi-b-plus.dtb
                24K     /boot/bcm2708-rpi-cm.dtb
                24K     /boot/bcm2708-rpi-zero.dtb
                24K     /boot/bcm2708-rpi-zero-w.dtb
                26K     /boot/bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb
                26K     /boot/bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb
                28K     /boot/bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb
                26K     /boot/bcm2710-rpi-cm3.dtb
                40K     /boot/bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb
                52K     /boot/bootcode.bin
                2,0K    /boot/cmdline.txt
                2,0K    /boot/cmdline.txt.backup
                2,0K    /boot/cmdline.txt.test
                2,0K    /boot/config.txt
                20K     /boot/COPYING.linux
                4,0K    /boot/fixup4cd.dat
                6,0K    /boot/fixup4.dat
                10K     /boot/fixup4db.dat
                10K     /boot/fixup4x.dat
                4,0K    /boot/fixup_cd.dat
                8,0K    /boot/fixup.dat
                10K     /boot/fixup_db.dat
                10K     /boot/fixup_x.dat
                2,0K    /boot/issue.txt
                5,1M    /boot/kernel7.img
                5,4M    /boot/kernel7l.img
                4,8M    /boot/kernel.img
                2,0K    /boot/LICENCE.broadcom
                20K     /boot/LICENSE.oracle
                604K    /boot/overlays
                746K    /boot/start4cd.elf
                4,5M    /boot/start4db.elf
                2,7M    /boot/start4.elf
                3,6M    /boot/start4x.elf
                670K    /boot/start_cd.elf
                4,7M    /boot/start_db.elf
                2,8M    /boot/start.elf
                3,7M    /boot/start_x.elf
                2,0K    /boot/wifikeyfile.txt
                40M     total
                

                (I don't know what the overlays directory is doing there.)

                Sorry for the digression while we're waiting for @artgamer2009's response. 😇 But maybe it can help him/her to know the contents of /boot in a Retropie installation that's running and updated for some time. I'll have to say though that I did compile some additional files from Github repos like WebtroPie, dispmanx_vnc, gunconf etc., so I don't know if that added something to my /boot that wouldn't be there otherwise.

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                  artgamer2009 @Clyde
                  last edited by

                  @Clyde hey thanks for the help! I do not have my raspberry pi at my sight but when I do, I'm really going to tell how it was going again thx for the help!

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                    artgamer2009
                    last edited by

                    it worked! thx guys!

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