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

[Mallikarjun(ಮಲ್ಲಿಕಾರ್ಜುನ್)]

I have a suggestion for the whole mess,

Scan the /boot folder/drive with "Disk Usage Analyzer", then you can know
what is that which takes so much space in your boot drive...


On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:09 PM, K Ramnarayan <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi
>
> Was trying to update my 9.10 install.
>
> Seems like there are some new kernal updates which meant that somethings
> were
> being written to grub.
>
> My Grub is located in a separate /boot parition of about 99 mb
>
> and now i get this message
> "Volume Boot has only 698 kb disk space left"
>
> You can free up disk space by removing unused programs or files or by
> removing
> files or programes to another partition or disk.
>
> The problem does not end there itself - all the current updates failed to
> get
> updated and now when i try synaptic i get the following error
>
> "
> E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a'
> to
> correct the problem.
> E: _cache->open() failed, please report. "
>
> and when i try the
> sudo dpkg --configure -a
> this is what happens
>
> Setting up initramfs-tools (0.92bubuntu53) ...
> update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
>
> Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-22-generic-pae
>
> gzip: stdout: No space left on device
> update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-22-generic-pae
> dpkg: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
> status
> 1
> -laptop:~$
>
> ***
> i jave atleast 4 different kernals installed and am not sure how to
> navigate he
> new Grub - its not as easy as earlier and am not sure how to create more
> space
> .(there is a tutorial to move grub but it seems quite dicey to me)
>
> This is affecting my OS performance as some programmes are beginning to
> crash
> or freeze (firefox) and i can't help but think its because of incomplete
> updates
>
> so any suggestions advice links would be appreciated.
>
> ram
>
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