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

[J. Paul Bissonnette]

On Tue, 26 May 2015 02:27:40 +0900
Thomas Blasejewicz <nyuwa at hb.tp1.jp> wrote:

> On 2015/05/26 1:55, lukshuntim at gmail.com wrote:
> > On Monday, May 25, 2015 09:54 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >> Hi :)
> >>
> >> 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
> >
> thomas at maus:~$ ls -hA1 /boot
> abi-3.13.0-52-generic
> abi-3.13.0-53-generic
> config-3.13.0-52-generic
> config-3.13.0-53-generic
> extlinux
> grub
> initrd.img-3.13.0-52-generic
> initrd.img-3.13.0-53-generic
> lost+found
> memtest86+.bin
> memtest86+.elf
> memtest86+_multiboot.bin
> System.map-3.13.0-52-generic
> System.map-3.13.0-53-generic
> vmlinuz-3.13.0-52-generic
> vmlinuz-3.13.0-53-generic
> thomas at maus:~$ uname -r
> 3.13.0-53-generic
> thomas at maus:~$ grep vmlinuz /boot/grub/grub.cfg
>      linux    /vmlinuz-3.13.0-53-generic 
> root=/dev/mapper/custom--vg-root ro  quiet splash $vt_handoff
>          linux    /vmlinuz-3.13.0-53-generic 
> root=/dev/mapper/custom--vg-root ro  quiet splash $vt_handoff
>          linux    /vmlinuz-3.13.0-53-generic 
> root=/dev/mapper/custom--vg-root ro recovery nomodeset
>          linux    /vmlinuz-3.13.0-52-generic 
> root=/dev/mapper/custom--vg-root ro  quiet splash $vt_handoff
>          linux    /vmlinuz-3.13.0-52-generic 
> root=/dev/mapper/custom--vg-root ro recovery nomodeset
> thomas at maus:~$
> 
> > sudo apt-get update
> > sudo apt-get upgrade
> > sudo apt-get autoremove
> >
> THIS sounds practical and I think, I will be able to do that.
> Thank you.
> 
> PS: xubuntu -> on the computer in question, xubuntu is the only OS.
> No parallel install etc. (not counting Windows XP installed to run in
> VM Player)
> 

If autoremove doesn't work for some reason, simply use synaptic to
remove all *3.13.0-52-generic entries. No rocket science involved :)