[Bug 1357093] Re: LVM or Encrypted install creates too small /boot partition

[Sergey Romanov]

Link to yet another forum thread:  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2256479
The problem is twofold.

1) Users not paying attention to apt-get saying:

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
...
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.

like in the thread linked above.

2) Systems where linux-
image-<version>-{generic,server,goldfish,lowlatency} don't get suggested
for autoremoval after upgrade to newer versions of
linux-{generic,server,goldfish,lowlatency}/linux-
image-{generic,server,goldfish,lowlatency}. Mostly because some dkms-
based kernel-modules are installed like NVIDIA/AMD propietary video
drivers or VirtualBox. dkms recommends virtual package linux-image
provided by each and every linux-
image-<version>-{generic,server,goldfish,lowlatency}. That prevents
their autoremoval as long as dkms is installed and apt is configured not
to autoremove recommended packages
(Apt::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant).

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Title:
  LVM or Encrypted install creates too small /boot partition

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Currently if one chooses to use LVM or encrypted install, a /boot
  partition is created of 236Mb

  Once kernel updates start being released this partition soon fills
  until people are left unable to upgrade.

  While you and I might know that we need to watch partition space, many
  of the people we have installing think that a windows disk is a disk
  and not a partition, education is probably the key - but in the
  meantime support venues keep needing to deal with the fact the
  partition is too small and/or old kernels are not purged as new ones
  install.

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