[ubuntu-in] Problem in 9.10 (grub wants more space)

[Narendra Diwate]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 00:12, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> ***
> The issue has led to a couple of questions
> 1. What should be a good size for a /boot - considering that if some
> one has a LTS version - which means 2 years and the fact that the
> kernel releases have been fairly frequent. My own Ubuntu 9.10 was
> installed in Dec 2009 and as of now (june 2010) a 100 MB boot
> partition has proved inadequate.
>
> Wherever i have readup on this matter the suggested sizes are all smaller
than your 99MB. So its not that your /boot is small, its the fact that it
has more than the ideal no of kernels taking up space that is the issue.

For comparison, my /boot is 18.6MB. I remove old kernels when i update the
kernels, but do it only after i have booted with the new kernel atleast
once.


> 2. Is there a need for a separate /boot partition, if so why ??
>
> If we go by the default Ubuntu install then no, but just like a lot of us
go for a separate /home, so too /boot. I think its a good idea to have a
separate /boot if you play around with its a lot.


I dont know whether it will work, but removing the oldest kernels should
free up some space to give some working space for the system to do what it
was trying to do in /boot. then probably apt get will work. Let others pitch
in with what they think.

Narendra
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