Wednesday, December 12, 2018

partitioning - /boot partition is always full


My /boot partition is always full after a few updates. I had always to delete the old version of the following files to regain some diskspace:


-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1271689 Nov  6 21:34 abi-3.19.0-xx-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 177782 Nov 6 21:34 config-3.19.0-xx-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32608396 Nov 11 20:23 initrd.img-3.19.0-xx-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 3622220 Nov 6 21:34 System.map-3.19.0-xx-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 6623936 Nov 6 21:34 vmlinuz-3.19.0-xx-generic

Is this normal or is there something wrong with my installation?


Additional informations:


    # du -h /boot
12K /boot/lost+found
2.4M /boot/grub/fonts
2.1M /boot/grub/i386-pc
126K /boot/grub/locale
6.8M /boot/grub
93M /boot
# df -h /boot
Dateisystem Größe Benutzt Verf. Verw% Eingehängt auf
/dev/sdb1 236M 95M 130M 43% /boot


There is a solution for you in this question, or this even older question


The basic suggestion of both is to use Ubuntu Tweak or Synaptic package manager to help with limiting the number of old kernels in the system.


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