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My boot partition seems to be filling up. I assume it is from updates? I'm a few MB from maxing it out. Can I take from adjacent partitions without damaging data?

From Gparted

sda1  ext4       boot    436 of 476MB used
sda2  extended           148.5GB 
sda5 ext4        /       6.4 of 18.6GB used
unallocated              18.6GB
sda7 ext4        /home   67.8 of 107GB used
unallocated              8GB
sda6!            unknown 3.72GB

I think the 2 unallocated sections are from an older Ubuntu version I don't know what unknown/sda6! partition is. There's a little warning that it might be damaged or unable to be identified by gparted.

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If the space is being used up by updates, you can try freeing up some of this space using the following command:

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge

Free space can also be moved from one partition to another using GParted. For an example of how to do this, see Moving Space Between Partitions.

To try to determine the contents of partition /dev/sda6 you might try the following commands:

sudo fdisk -l -u /dev/sda

sudo blkid /dev/sda6
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  • Thanks for the help. I ended up deleting old kernels and that freed up a lot of space.
    – hortstu
    Sep 13, 2013 at 6:25

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