[xubuntu-users] "Not enough space on disk /boot"

J. Paul Bissonnette jpaulbiss at gmail.com
Sat May 23 16:16:34 UTC 2015


Remove the oldest kernels. You can use synaptic to do this. I usually
keep only two in /boot.
paul

On Sat, 23 May 2015 22:55:38 +0900
Thomas Blasejewicz <nyuwa at hb.tp1.jp> wrote:

> Good evening
> In more or less regular intervalls, when the computer tries to
> "update", I get the following error message:
> 
> "Not enough free space.
> The upgrade needs a total of 81.9 MB of free space on the disk /boot.
> Please free at least an additional of 20.4 MB of space on the
> disk /boot. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former
> installation using sudo apt-get clean."
> 
> File manager shows:
> /boot = total space = 248.8 MB
> used space  169.5 MB = 75%
> 
> I did not set this myself. However, I do recall using "entire disk + 
> LVM" during setup and read somewhere, this might be problem.
> 
> What is this all about, and is there a way to make all this
> "automatic"?
> 
> Thank you.
> Thomas
> 





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