[Bug 1357093] Re: Kernels not autoremoving, causing out of space error on LVM or Encrypted installation or on any installation, when /boot partition gets full

[Ta]

Well when I attempted the workaround I got this:

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.

I actually used the above command to clear up space ages ago however it
no longer worked. The guide said to remove old kernels and leave the
latest kernel as a backup by using dpkg. But there was nothing to
remove. Thats why I looked in boot partition and checked for junk. Maybe
dpkg is not removing the gzip archives after a kernel is removed?

If you think I damaged my system, do you think I should reformat my
system?

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Title:
  Kernels not autoremoving, causing out of space error on LVM or
  Encrypted installation or on any installation, when /boot partition
  gets full

Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

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.

  For workaround and sytem repair, see
  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/RemoveOldKernels

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