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CachyOS boot partition usage limit has exceeded (limine-snapper-notify)

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. 

  ~                                                                                                                                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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just_another_person
lemmy.world

Remove old entries youve created with this tool, or grow that partition.

There's no reason you should have a ton of different boot entries to snapshots.

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Comexsreply
lemmy.zip

Remove old entries youve created with this tool,

what tool?

There’s no reason you should have a ton of different boot entries to snapshots.

limine-snapper-info says I have 0 snapshots out of 8.

❮ sudo snapper list
# │ Type   │ Pre # │ Date │ User │ Cleanup │ Description │ Userdata
──┼────────┼───────┼──────┼──────┼─────────┼─────────────┼─────────
0 │ single │       │      │ root │         │ current     │
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just_another_personreply
lemmy.world

Then what's taking up all the space? If you want the tool to work, then grow the partition to get past the space limitation. Simple as that.

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Comexsreply
lemmy.zip

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.

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Comexsreply
lemmy.zip
  ~   
❮ 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
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kumireply
feddit.online

Here, you dropped this: /*

BTW ncdu -x /boot

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Comexsreply
lemmy.zip

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
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dnubreply
piefed.social

Exactly, can't you put a 5 or 10 snapshots limit where older get deleted as new ones are created? Timeshift has that

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eldavireply
lemmy.ml

my /boot is also 2 gigs and i'm glad you shared this; thank you!

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Ada
lemmy.blahaj.zone

The quickest and easiest solution would be to update your snapper config and reduce the number of snapshots you keep.

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