[NCLUG] Boot sector full

Bill Cthulhu degutan at gmail.com
Sun Sep 9 22:15:58 MDT 2012


This link contained advice that helped me:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/142926/cant-upgrade-due-to-low-disk-space-on-boot

Thanks, James, for confirmation that this is the right direction to go.

-Bill

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 9:15 PM, James DeWitt <jdewitt at verinet.com> wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> If your boot partition is full, you may want to remove some (not all) of
> your older kernels.
>
> My laptop occasionally has this problem. Culling old kernel packages
> (linux-image-...) seems a little safer than resizing the boot partition.
> --
> James
>
> Degutan White <degutan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I tried to run an update, but got complaint that there's not enough space in the boot sector.
>>
>> I tried deleting trash..  Got 2 gigs free, but still same complaint.
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
>> Bill
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