Tried ranking and refreshing mirrors as well. Didn’t help. error: failed retrieving file 'linux-cachyos-hardened-6.17.13-2-x86_64_v4.pkg.tar.zst' from mirror.cachyos.org : Maximum file size exceeded error: failed retrieving file 'linux-cachyos-hardened-6.17.13-2-x86_64_v4.pkg.tar.zst' from cdn.cach…

[image] kombine: Maximum file size exceeded Your hard drive (better: your /boot partition) is probably running out of space.

[image] HardCode4All: Your hard drive (better: your /boot partition) is probably running out of space. No. There’s still plenty of space.

It’s happening during download, so more likely that /var/cache is out of space. If your system is stable and you don’t need to revert to an old package, you can try a pacman -Scc to clean up all the packages that are kept. Also you may want to check for old snapshots.

Tried this already. There are no space issues. Also I can download & install other kernels just fine. Edit: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 128874460 6194476 121278420 5% / devtmpfs 7977460 0 7977460 0% /dev tmpfs 7990332 …

Hm… the last idea I have here is that FAT16 cannot save files bigger than 2GB . Could that be the issue? Edit: forget what I said. The file in question is 145 MiB in size, so that should not be an issue at all. I am out of ideas. ¯\(ツ)/¯ Edit 2: Perplexity has its own idea about that , but I do not…

Oh - you are running in v4 (Testing)? I guess, there are always problems that can occur there. Maybe wait for a while (some hours) and try again (I think it can happen that a kernel build is “announced” but not fully available). Edit: And don’t forget to update the pacman database via pacman -Sy li…

[image] kombine: Also I can download & install other kernels just fine. Can you show us the command used, I have no issues on hardened. pacman -Ss linux-cachyos | grep installed cachyos-v3/linux-cachyos 6.19.3-2 [installed] cachyos-v3/linux-cachyo…

CachyOS Kernel manager and pacman -S I’m runniing linux-cachyos-hardened 6.17.13-2 [installed] now. I can download that one as well. Apparently only the v4 one doesn’t work.

Most likely a mirror issue, It happens.

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HardCode4All February 25, 2026, 10:51am 5

Oh yeah, that sounds about right.

There is also a very nice script that helps you reclaim disk space: