[ubuntu-in] Problem in 9.10 (grub wants more space)

[Onkar Shinde]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/6/29 Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] <abhishek.amberkar at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Why did this work? cause dpkg doesn't take care of dependencies?
>
> well maybe it worked but partially
>
> my boot still was at 100 % usage and on rebooting this status did not change

Because you removed wrong package. You were supposed to remove
linux-image-<something>. The package you removed didn't have any files
in /boot.

>
> so went to synaptic and tried to get rid of yet another older kernel
>
> the process got stopped with the first error message - not enough space
>
> so this time i went into /boot via sudo nautilus and deleted files
> that had to do with 2 of the older uninstalled kernels

You shouldn't really do that. You should remove kernels in proper way.

>
> dpkg did uninstall but not physically remove it. So no new space was created.

Wrong conclusion. Please see above.

> So understanding this i dpkg -r one more linux kernel and have
> physically removed  some more stuff from /boot now reading only 78 $%
> usage
>
> so am trying now through synaptic to remove some of the other older kernels
>
> it seems i have from 2.6.31-16 through to .22 installed - thats quite a bit

Good that synaptic is working for you now. It would have also worked
if you would have removed correct package with dpkg. :-)


Onkar
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