[Bug 199086] [NEW] update manager /boot fills up with kernel

[mikasjoman]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: linux-backports-modules-hardy-386


As I am trying to update Hardy (alpha 5), I suddenly got Update Manager telling me that my disk was full.

I looked and I had 3.7 GB left. Whatever I did, emptying the trash, or
apt-get clean, It would not work.

The problem turned out (after talking with a linux guru), that Ubuntu
leaves all the kernel upgrades in /boot filling the partition up.

4: expected to happen: when upgrading Ubuntu Kernel, keep the last two
kernel updates, not all of them. This way you decrease problems for us
"human beings".

5. I could not update my system.

The issue has been addressed at brainstorm here:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2236/

Solution: empty the /boot of all the old kernel updates that are not
used when updating the kernel. As somebody said on brainstorm, this
should just not happen. And I guess, that it happens allot, since many
new people like me gives Ubuntu small partitions.

** Affects: linux-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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update manager /boot fills up with kernel
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