[Bug 798414] Re: update-initramfs does not check for free space

[kireol]

df -H
Filesystem             Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2               40G    13G    26G  33% /
none                   1.6G   369k   1.6G   1% /dev
none                   1.6G    46M   1.5G   3% /dev/shm
none                   1.6G   390k   1.6G   1% /var/run
none                   1.6G      0   1.6G   0% /var/lock
none                   1.6G      0   1.6G   0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda1               96M    85M   5.7M  94% /boot
/dev/sda4              113G    71G    36G  67% /home
/home/me/.Private
                       113G    71G    36G  67% /home/me


Don't see how I'm even REMOTELY in the same bug as this one.

But since obviously nobody else cares and just randomly marks bugs as
duplicate, I couldnt care less anymore either.

Why bother reporting stuff if people can't do the bare minimum.

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Title:
  update-initramfs does not check for free space

Status in “initramfs-tools” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

  When generating a new initramfs there is no check for available free
  space, subsequently its possible for update-initramfs to fail due to a
  lack of free space.  This is resulting in package installation
  failures for initramfs-tools.  For example:

  Setting up initramfs-tools (0.98.8ubuntu3) ...
  update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
  Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
  update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic

  gzip: stdout: No space left on device
  E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1
  update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
  dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

  WORKAROUND:

  Remove unused kernels using computer janitor or manually free space on
  your partition containing the /boot file system.

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