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[jtbrooks101]

How do I clean out the boot. It is full and i can not install update. Is there a way to expand it? Right now it is 217MB

[dino99]

to give you some usefull help, first tell us about your hardware/installation
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...1#post12495221

[jtbrooks101]

hp pavilion dv6 newest version. used a flash drive to install

[ajgreeny]

Do you have a separate /boot partition?

Let's see the output of command mount.

[miegiel]

You probably have old (backup) kernels in /boot/ that are safe to remove (it's recommended to keep at least 1 old kernel).

To view do:

ls -al /boot/

To remove old kernels do for example:

sudo rm /boot/*-3.2.0-40-generic

Where 3.2.0-40-generic is the kernel version you want to remove.

Not necessary to make room, but you might want to cleanup the old kernel entries from the GRUB menu by doing:

sudo update-grub

[Impavidus]

Removing old kernels using the package manager is cleaner than using rm.

sudo apt-get purge linux-image-3.2.0-40-generic

Substitute your old kernel versions. Keep one old kernel as backup. This will update grub automatically.

[Shivakumara]

As Miegiel explained, remove the unwanted and oldest vmlinuz*, initrd.img*, System.map* and config*. after this update the grub with update-grub command.

It will make you some space to update the kernel

Thanks
Shivu

[matt_symes]

Hi

As Miegiel explained, remove the unwanted and oldest vmlinuz*, initrd.img*, System.map* and config*. after this update the grub with update-grub command.

It will make you some space to update the kernel

Thanks
Shivu

The problem is that will not cleanly remove the kernels as it will leave other files dotted around the filing system.

It will also leave the package manager in an inconsistent state. It will have the kernels flagged as installed when they are not.

Although what you and Miegel propose will work, I would advocate doing a proper job and remove them using the suggestion in post #6 or a variation of it using dpkg.

@OP. Please post the output of

dpkg -l | grep -E linux-"headers-|image-"

You can copy and paste it into the terminal and copy and paste the results back here.

It will also show the kernel headers you have installed as they may need cleaning up as well.

Kind regards

[jtbrooks101]

ii  linux-image-3.5.0-17-generic                                3.5.0-17.28                            amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-3.5.0-24-generic                                3.5.0-24.37                            amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-3.5.0-25-generic                                3.5.0-25.39                            amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-3.5.0-26-generic                                3.5.0-26.42                            amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-3.5.0-27-generic                                3.5.0-27.46                            amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
iF  linux-image-3.8.0-19-generic                                3.8.0-19.30                            amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-extra-3.5.0-17-generic                          3.5.0-17.28                            amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-extra-3.5.0-24-generic                          3.5.0-24.37                            amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-extra-3.5.0-25-generic                          3.5.0-25.39                            amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-extra-3.5.0-26-generic                          3.5.0-26.42                            amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-extra-3.5.0-27-generic                          3.5.0-27.46                            amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
iU  linux-image-extra-3.8.0-19-generic                          3.8.0-19.30                            amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
iU  linux-image-generic                                         3.8.0.19.35                            amd64        Generic Linux kernel image
jtbrooks101@jtbrooks101-HP-Pavilion-dv6-Notebook-PC:~$

that is what i got

[ajgreeny]

I would suggest you use synaptic, which you may need to install first, as it is quite simply the best package manager available and gives you a lot of flexibility that the software-centre does not. Now search for and remove:-

linux-image-3.5.0-17-generic 3.5.0-17.28 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
linux-image-3.5.0-24-generic 3.5.0-24.37 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
linux-image-3.5.0-25-generic 3.5.0-25.39 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
linux-image-3.5.0-26-generic 3.5.0-26.42 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
linux-image-extra-3.5.0-17-generic 3.5.0-17.28 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
linux-image-extra-3.5.0-24-generic 3.5.0-24.37 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
linux-image-extra-3.5.0-25-generic 3.5.0-25.39 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
linux-image-extra-3.5.0-26-generic 3.5.0-26.42 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP

along with any same numbered header packages. That will leave you with two kernels only and should clean out a great deal of space on your system.