Monday, October 29, 2018

partitioning - Need to expand the size of /boot

I want to upgrade to the newest version of Ubuntu, but I keep getting the error "Not enough free disk space". The upgrade needs a total of 90.6M of free space.




My problem is that boot presently uses 51.6 MB of space and only has 5 MB left. I.e, the total size of boot is only 56.6 MB. The upgrade requires 90.6MB.



I have tried using gparted to resize the partition that boot is on, but I have a problem.



There's plenty of free room left on my hard drive at 435 GB free, 25 GB used.



I have 2 partitions. 1 is 255 MB, the other is 496 GB.



This is the warning message that appears in gparted
Warning message




When I click on resize/move for the main partition, the slider bar won't move.
Screenshot from gparted



I've also done the automated clean up, but it doesn't remove enough of the files to leave 90.6 MB free.



How can I expand the boot partition?

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