[Bug 1718258] [NEW] /boot fills up over and over and over

[Philip Meidell]

Public bug reported:

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:~$

** Affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  /boot fills up over and over and over

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  New

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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