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Software updater says I need to clear some space, but i cleared space for it

Asked by tadiv

BASED upon my experiance with question https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/245181 - I deleted some old kernel images after getting the message:

The upgrade needs a total of 77.3 M free space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additional 37.9 M of disk space on '/boot'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.

The package manager told me that I was freeing 139 MB, but I still get this message... GRRRrrr - frustrating!

Any suggestions?

Tom

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Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty (hamishmb) said : 		#1

Okay so presumably you've removed all kernels except the current running kernel and the last kernel?

Hamish

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tadiv (tadiv-comcast) said : 		#2

I removed 2 - I left "29" and I'm running "30" - and it seems that I also left "24" and "27" and JUST deleted them too (deleted a total of 4) -

AND it worked... Can I ask why a user has to manage this - why does the system not manage it autonomously?

Tom

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tadiv (tadiv-comcast) said : 		#3

AND now I seem to be running "32"...

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Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty (hamishmb) said : 		#4

Linux Mint does to an extent. The reason Ubuntu doesn't is so if you have a boot problem you can be sure the kernel isn't at fault. You can do it with Ubuntu tweak. When removing kernels it may say it'll free about 70mb, but most of that's on /, not /boot which needs about 20-30mb per kernel I think. Is your boot partition small, or do you not use a seperate boot partition? Most of the time it's best not to.

Hamish

On 19 July 2014 05:16:55 GMT+08:00, tadiv <email address hidden> wrote:
>Question #251854 on Ubuntu changed:
>https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/251854
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>tadiv posted a new comment:
>AND now I seem to be running "32"...
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