Sunday, June 4, 2017

14.04 - Software updater needs more disk space


I got the following error message from Software Updater:


The upgrade needs a total of 74,6 M free space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additional 68,3 M of disk space on '/boot'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.

How can I get more disc space? I have


df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/xubuntu--vg-root 454G 13G 418G 3% /
none 4,0K 0 4,0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 1,9G 4,0K 1,9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 384M 1,3M 383M 1% /run
none 5,0M 0 5,0M 0% /run/lock
none 1,9G 24M 1,9G 2% /run/shm
none 100M 36K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sda2 237M 219M 6,1M 98% /boot
/dev/sda1 511M 3,4M 508M 1% /boot/efi


I experienced this same message with Ubuntu 14.04. The answer to this question took care of the problem by removing old Linux kernels from /boot. It freed almost a half gig of space there.


Here's the link:
How do I remove old kernel versions to clean up the boot menu?


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