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

[lukshuntim at gmail.com]

On Monday, May 25, 2015 09:54 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Hi :)
>
> On Mon, 25 May 2015 13:16:34 +0200, Petter Adsen wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 May 2015 19:35:44 +0900, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
>
> Help us, to help you.
>
>>> So, I guess, I will have to continue to regularly and manually
>>> uninstall old/unused(?) kernels to keep things going.

Hi Peter,

Don't get despaired so quickly. :-)

You're on the way to solving your problem! You know how to open a 
terminal and issue commands. That's a big plus. You "df /boot" helps us 
to understand your problem a little better.

>
> We can help you, please post the output of
>
>    ls -hAl /boot
>
> and of
>
>    uname -r
>
> and just in case also of
>
> grep vmlinuz /boot/grub/grub.cfg

After you've posted the output, we'll be in a better position to help.

[snipped]

If your disk space problem is really having a lot of old kernels lying 
around, the first step is to uninstall them but leaves behind the 
current running one. After that, you can install the "magic" package 
linux-image-generic (if that's not already installed) which will always 
pull in the latest kernel and henceafter, in the terminal using apt-get

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get autoremove

will leave you with only the latest kernel.

To guard against the rare problem of not able to boot the newly 
installed kernel and hence safer, you run the "sudo apt-get autoremove" 
command *after* you've shut down and successfully booted and logged in 
again.

Hope this is sufficiently automatic, :-)
ST
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