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Low Disk Space boot volume

Asked by Jeff Fischer

I am unable to load software updates. The error message is:
The upgrade needs a total of 65.2 M free space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additional 62.4 M of disk space on '/boot'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.
I emptied the trash and ran the sudo command but it did not free up enough space.

The disk partition 1 (volume"boot") is 255MB with only 16MB free. The other partitions shown are:
Extended Partition Partition 2 750GB
Partition 5 750GB LVM2 PV

The system drive is a 750GB Hard Disk

I found a related question: 227620 which was resolved by removing older files. I ran the command listed
dpkg -l|grep linux-image; uname -a

It returned the following files (pasted below) but they are different from those listed in the previous (227620) question so I am not sure if I can safely delete them.

ii linux-image-3.16.0-30-generic 3.16.0-30.40~14.04.1 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.16.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.16.0-34-generic 3.16.0-34.47~14.04.1 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.16.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.16.0-37-generic 3.16.0-37.51~14.04.1 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.16.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.16.0-43-generic 3.16.0-43.58~14.04.1 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.16.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.16.0-46-generic 3.16.0-46.62~14.04.1 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.16.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.16.0-57-generic 3.16.0-57.77~14.04.1 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.16.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.16.0-71-generic 3.16.0-71.92~14.04.1 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.16.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.16.0-30-generic 3.16.0-30.40~14.04.1 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.16.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.16.0-34-generic 3.16.0-34.47~14.04.1 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.16.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.16.0-37-generic 3.16.0-37.51~14.04.1 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.16.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.16.0-43-generic 3.16.0-43.58~14.04.1 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.16.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.16.0-46-generic 3.16.0-46.62~14.04.1 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.16.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.16.0-57-generic 3.16.0-57.77~14.04.1 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.16.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
iF linux-image-extra-3.16.0-71-generic 3.16.0-71.92~14.04.1 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.16.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
iU linux-image-generic-lts-utopic 3.16.0.71.62 amd64 Generic Linux kernel image

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of:

uname -a

Thanks

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Jeff Fischer (jeff-fischer-nc) said : 		#2

Linux beth-HP-Pavilion-dv7-Notebook-PC 3.16.0-71-generic #92~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 12 23:31:46 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-3.16.0-30-generic
sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-3.16.0-34-generic
sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-3.16.0-37-generic
sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-3.16.0-43-generic
sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-3.16.0-46-generic
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
sudo apt-get clean

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Jeff Fischer (jeff-fischer-nc) said : 		#4

Thank you so much for your help!

The commands freed up space and I was able to update the software.

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Jeff Fischer (jeff-fischer-nc) said : 		#5

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.