Hi Ilkka, Try doing "apt autoremove". This should get rid of all the old, no-longer used kernels and other software on your system. You should then be able to get the new stuff on :-)
Best Regards, Paul. On Sun, 1 Aug 2021 at 04:36, Ilkka Huotari <ilk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Ubuntu 21. My /boot partition size is 500M and it's getting full: > > /dev/sda1 446M 352M 61M 86% /boot > > What's taking space are mainly these: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 153M heinä 10 14:22 initrd.img-5.11.0-22-generic > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 151M heinä 23 13:13 initrd.img-5.11.0-25-generic > > apt-get upgrade fails: > > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.11.0-25-generic > Error 24 : Write error : cannot write compressed block > E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 lz4 -9 -l 24 > update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-5.11.0-25-generic with 1. > dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure): > installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess > returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > initramfs-tools > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > Resizing the partitions is very complicated because I'm using an encrypted > partition ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ResizeEncryptedPartitions > ). So that's really not an option for me. > > How to fix this: > > I suggest that apt-get/dpkg handles upgrading outside /boot. Two kernels > seem to fit there if the updating is done cleverly. Or if only one kernel > fits, then keep only on kernel in /boot. > > Thanks, > Ilkka > -- *Paul Duncan* Lead Marine Technician, RV Falkor SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE mobile +1 650 387 4151 VOIP +1 954 672 4943 www.schmidtocean.org Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ *This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged* *information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you have received it in* *error, please advise the sender by reply email and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you.*
