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33 questions linked to/from What is the safest way to clean up /boot partition?
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How to remove unused packages when the disk is full? [duplicate]
How to uninstall unused packages when disk is full?
I am trying to install an unmet dependency linux-headers-4.4.0-108 and update the kernel.
I have tried to use sudo apt-get autoremove but it fails ...
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How to add memory or delete files to \boot volume? [duplicate]
I have only 6 free Mb on "boot volume".
How can I find for not-used files to remove?
Or is it possible to add memory to this unit?
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/boot directory is out space for new software updates [duplicate]
My question is what generic file should I delete that won't affect the Ubuntu system. Files inside /boot directory are all ends up with generic. So what are the right files should I delete so that I ...
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smelling something Dangerous about update [duplicate]
I am attaching two screen shots, self explained. Why do an update asking something regarding my boot sector? isn't dangerous?
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dpkg-deb subprocess killed by signal (Broken pipe) in Boot upgrade [duplicate]
Hi I want to upgrade my app but I get this error :
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to ...
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How do I free up more space in /boot?
My /boot partition is nearly full and I get a warning every time I reboot my system. I already deleted old kernel packages (linux-headers...), actually I did that to install a newer kernel version ...
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How can I remove old kernels/install new ones when /boot is full?
I know this question is asked many times before, however with me it is just a bit different I guess.
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 224G 5.2G 208G 3% /
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The volume "Filesystem Root" has only 533.9 MB disk space remaining
I have run into this problem two days ago. The OS warns me that root has limited
disk space; however this should not be the case since I have 3 separate logical partitions for Ubuntu. Also it allows ...
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APT wedged by kernel version mismatch
Apt is seemingly unable to do anything useful for me, repeatedly giving messages of this form:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-server:
linux-server depends on linux-image-...
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File system root low disk space [duplicate]
I installed Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 a month back. It all worked perfectly but after two days I repeatedly got the notification
File system root low disk space 0 MB left.
I had installed everything ...
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Using apt-get autoremove with Missing Dependencies
My Ubuntu server instance's /boot partition is currently at 100%, and I want to remove some unused/unneeded dependencies using sudo apt-get autoremove. However, it appears that I am missing some ...
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Boot partition full, failing to delete old kernels. Broken packages
Sorry for asking about what is probably really simple, but I've been Googling about for a week now and I've tried a lot of stuff without success.
To start off, I get a pop-up every time I boot saying ...
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Error running sudo apt-get -f install
I'm trying to remove a package: sudo apt-get remove pgbouncer but then I got the following error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You ...
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Boot partition filling up: Is this a bug in Ubuntu?
I keep running into the issue of the /boot partition filling up with old kernel images, which causes obscure errors during upgrades (but now I know what they are...).
Note that I already know how to ...
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The volume "boot" has only 2.8 mb disk space remaining [duplicate]
I keep getting the following message and am new to Ubuntu. Not sure how to increase the space in boot volume from other partition.
The volume "boot" has only 2.8 mb disk space remaining
it also ...
