[PLUG] laptop error msg out of space for /boot

Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtmann at gmail.com
Fri Nov 18 22:46:05 UTC 2016


Seems like initramfs ran into a memory limit.  I really do not know what
this is about, but poking around the web gives me the idea that an upgrade
was attempted but did not have room.  A bug report indicated that
initramfs-tools does not check for memory sufficiency:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/798414

I have made a startup usb stick in preparation for what I might have to do
to enlarge  or make room in the partition.

Free says (kbytes):
             total        used        free      shared  buff/cache
available
Mem:        8013756     1198896     1742336      279424     5072524
6196764

sudo partx --show /dev/sda
[sudo] password for denis:
NR   START       END   SECTORS   SIZE NAME UUID
 1    2048    999423    997376   487M      458a71eb-01
 2 1001470 250068991 249067522 118.8G      458a71eb-02
 5 1001472 250068991 249067520 118.8G      458a71eb-05

According to gnome disks, it looks like partition 1 is 511 Mb, and 92.9%
full. It is Ext2 (how that happened I do not know.  It is a 128G SSD.)  I
have yet to install gparted.

What do you recommend?  (The desktop is still down because of the display).

Thanks,
-Denis



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