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Software updater says I need to clear some space, but I have space...

Asked by tadiv

Software updater says "The upgrade needs a total of 72.5 M free space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additional 23.4 M of disk space on '/boot'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'."

BUT, I have 96.4 GB free on my one and only filesystem drive...

Suggestions?

Thanks,
Tom

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tadiv (tadiv-comcast) said : 		#1

To be clear - the drive with 96.4 GB free is the only regular hard drive "mounted" except for a removable backup 1 TB drive that has 600 GB free.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

What is the output of:

df -i; lsb_release -a; uname -a; df -h; dpkg -l | grep linux-image

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tadiv (tadiv-comcast) said : 		#3

Results as follows:
~$ df -i; lsb_release -a; uname -a; df -h; dpkg -l | grep linux-image
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root 7053312 342652 6710660 5% /
none 213295 2 213293 1% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 206790 571 206219 1% /dev
tmpfs 213295 586 212709 1% /run
none 213295 4 213291 1% /run/lock
none 213295 7 213288 1% /run/shm
none 213295 36 213259 1% /run/user
/dev/sda1 62248 283 61965 1% /boot
/dev/sdc1 146862760 10334 146852426 1% /media/tadiv/Elements
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 13.10
Release: 13.10
Codename: saucy
Linux tadiv-desktop 3.11.0-17-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 3 21:53:31 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root 106G 11G 90G 11% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 2.0G 4.0K 2.0G 1% /dev
tmpfs 397M 1.2M 396M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 2.0G 156K 2.0G 1% /run/shm
none 100M 64K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sda1 236M 177M 47M 80% /boot
/dev/sdc1 747G 187G 561G 25% /media/tadiv/Elements
ii linux-image-3.11.0-12-generic 3.11.0-12.19 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.11.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.11.0-13-generic 3.11.0-13.20 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.11.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.11.0-14-generic 3.11.0-14.21 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.11.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.11.0-15-generic 3.11.0-15.25 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.11.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.11.0-17-generic 3.11.0-17.31 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.11.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.11.0-12-generic 3.11.0-12.19 i386 Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.11.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.11.0-13-generic 3.11.0-13.20 i386 Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.11.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.11.0-14-generic 3.11.0-14.21 i386 Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.11.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.11.0-15-generic 3.11.0-15.25 i386 Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.11.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.11.0-17-generic 3.11.0-17.31 i386 Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.11.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-generic 3.11.0.17.18 i386 Generic Linux kernel image

Tom

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Best Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#4

Look at this output:

/dev/sda1 236M 177M 47M 80% /boot

So your /boot partition only has 47MB of free diskspace.

And your Software updater says "The upgrade needs a total of 72.5 M free space on disk '/boot'. "

So you need to uninstall old kernels located in /boot.

You can use Software Manager or Synaptic to search for old linux-image packages that can be uninstalled.

You currently have 5 kernels installed of which 4 can be removed....

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tadiv (tadiv-comcast) said : 		#5

OK - and how do I use either of those tools?

Respectfully,
Tom

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tadiv (tadiv-comcast) said : 		#6

I figured it out - Thanks!

Tom

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tadiv (tadiv-comcast) said : 		#7

Thanks Mark Rijckenberg, that solved my question.