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I was running a upgrade of the various packages and I got a message saying I did not have enough space (weird). That happened after a boot that went wrong and I had to turn off my pc holding down the power button. After restarting it I run apt-get autoremove (to free some space) and then the upgrade worked.

Here's the result of df:

Filesystem                  1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev                          2996408        0   2996408   0% /dev
tmpfs                          603604     9068    594536   2% /run
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root 108616648 33597568  69478628  33% /
tmpfs                         3018012     7220   3010792   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                            5120        4      5116   1% /run/lock
tmpfs                         3018012        0   3018012   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1                      482922   166820    291168  37% /boot
tmpfs                          603604        4    603600   1% /run/user/108
tmpfs                          603604       76    603528   1% /run/user/1000

Can you spot something wrong?

Thanks

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  • is the df output from before or after the autoremove?
    – rtaft
    Jul 25, 2018 at 19:59
  • right after the autoremove
    – nourdine
    Jul 25, 2018 at 21:46

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The apt-get autoremove probably cleaned up old kernels sitting on /boot/. Filling up the /boot/ partition is a common issue with Ubuntu when your partition is smaller.

Boot partition filling up: Is this a bug in Ubuntu?

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  • So it is ok now? I am right in thinking I have 37% of the HD free?
    – nourdine
    Jul 25, 2018 at 20:15
  • Until it fills up again. 37% is the boot partition which is only ~500MB. Anytime there is a kernel update, it will add it there, and leave all the old ones behind. Your main partition is / at 33%. df -h is a little easier to read.
    – rtaft
    Jul 25, 2018 at 20:22
  • So I suppose it is ok to have ~500MB boot partition no?
    – nourdine
    Jul 25, 2018 at 21:48
  • its fine, just keep an eye on it. You can setup a cronjob to alert you when it's getting full, or just clean it up whenever you update. Here's a sample script gist.github.com/fduran/1870429
    – rtaft
    Jul 26, 2018 at 11:44

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