[Bug 1718258] Re: /boot fills up over and over and over

[Philip Meidell]

Hi Brian,

Sorry for the delay. Your message got buried in the maelstrom of emails.

I'm using the Software Updater that gets called from the System Settings 
GUI. I get there by clicking the cogwheel in the upper right corner, 
select About this computer, and hitting the Install Updates button in 
the lower right corner of the Details pop-up.  I was unaware of the 
'sudo apt autoremove' option until I saw your email. I just ran it, and 
it cleaned up a bunch of files, although a couple of errors were 
reported along the way, but now the boot directory looks healthy again.


Thanks for the tip!

Kind regards,

Philip Meidell


On 09/25/2017 12:23 PM, Brian Murray wrote:
> With which software are you performing upgrades? Are you using update-
> manager or something else?
>
> How did you go about removing the extra kernels? Did you try 'sudo apt
> autoremove' and did that work or not?
>
> ** Tags added: xenial
>
> ** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
>         Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Tags added: full-boot
>

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Title:
  /boot fills up over and over and over

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Recently whenever I perform a software update the /boot directory gets
  filled with dozens of old, worn-out kernel builds. I'm getting sick of
  having to remove them just to see them rebuilt each time a software
  update is attempted and ultimately fails due to a full partition. The
  /boot directory is of reasonable size. Here's df after my most recent
  purge:

  /dev/sda1                      482922   113456    344532  25% /boot

  pmeidell at eclipse:~$ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
  Release:	16.04
  pmeidell at eclipse:~$

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