Not enough free disc space

[laurietruluck]

Hello!

I know this has been asked before quite often, but I'm quite new to Ubuntu and I always find it confusing trying to find solutions by looking at other threads.
I get this message when trying to udpate software: The upgrade needs a total of 81.4 M free space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additional 13.6 M of disk space on '/boot'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'
Please can someone explain how I can resolve this?

Many thanks,
Laurie

[Bashing-om]

laurietruluck; Hi ! Welcome to the forum.

The method of the 'fix' has changed in recent releases.
Now that begs the question, what release are you running ?
post back the out puts -Between Code Tags - of terminal commands:

lsb_release -a
uname -r
df -h
df -i

code tag tutorial:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...8#post12776168

And that tells us the release, and kernel you are running, and where the space is being consumed.

Once these are known, we can get detailed for the resolution.

where there are solutions

there are no problems

[laurietruluck]

Hi Bashing-om

Thanks for your help. Here are the out-puts:

laurie@laurie-Vaio:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release:    14.04
Codename:    trusty

laurie@laurie-Vaio:~$ uname -r
3.13.0-30-generic

laurie@laurie-Vaio:~$ df -h
Filesystem                   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root  455G   28G  404G   7% /
none                         4.0K     0  4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev                         1.9G  4.0K  1.9G   1% /dev
tmpfs                        381M  1.2M  380M   1% /run
none                         5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none                         1.9G  512K  1.9G   1% /run/shm
none                         100M   40K  100M   1% /run/user
/dev/sda1                    236M  159M   65M  72% /boot

laurie@laurie-Vaio:~$ df -i
Filesystem                    Inodes  IUsed    IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root 30253056 297769 29955287    1% /
none                          487584      2   487582    1% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev                          483670    507   483163    1% /dev
tmpfs                         487584    536   487048    1% /run
none                          487584      4   487580    1% /run/lock
none                          487584     10   487574    1% /run/shm
none                          487584     26   487558    1% /run/user
/dev/sda1                      62248    316    61932    1% /boot

Thanks,
Laurie

[ibjsb4]

Try this

Enter these commands one line at a time:

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ap...nance_commands

[varunendra]

ibjsb4,

Those commands will only free space on their root partition, while the /boot, where the cleanup is required, is clearly on a separate partition of 236 MB size -

laurie@laurie-Vaio:~$ df -h
Filesystem                   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root  455G   28G  404G   7% /
none                         4.0K     0  4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev                         1.9G  4.0K  1.9G   1% /dev
tmpfs                        381M  1.2M  380M   1% /run
none                         5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none                         1.9G  512K  1.9G   1% /run/shm
none                         100M   40K  100M   1% /run/user
/dev/sda1                    236M  159M   65M  72% /boot

I believe we need to see which other kernels are installed so we can be specific on what needs to be removed and how.


@Laurie,

Please also post the output of -

dpkg -l | egrep 'linux-(image|headers)'

You can copy-paste the above command from here to the terminal to avoid typo.

While posting the outputs, please use 'Code' tags. It preserves the output's formatting and makes the post cleaner, compact and more readable. To see a quick 'HowTo' with screenshots, please follow the "Use Code Tags" link in my signature.

[ibjsb4]

Oops, didn't catch the partition.

[laurietruluck]

laurie@laurie-Vaio:~$ dpkg -l | egrep 'linux-(image|headers)'
ii  linux-headers-3.13.0-24                               3.13.0-24.47                                        all          Header files related to Linux kernel version 3.13.0
ii  linux-headers-3.13.0-24-generic                       3.13.0-24.47                                        amd64        Linux kernel headers for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-headers-3.13.0-27                               3.13.0-27.50                                        all          Header files related to Linux kernel version 3.13.0
ii  linux-headers-3.13.0-27-generic                       3.13.0-27.50                                        amd64        Linux kernel headers for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-headers-3.13.0-29                               3.13.0-29.53                                        all          Header files related to Linux kernel version 3.13.0
ii  linux-headers-3.13.0-29-generic                       3.13.0-29.53                                        amd64        Linux kernel headers for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-headers-3.13.0-30                               3.13.0-30.55                                        all          Header files related to Linux kernel version 3.13.0
ii  linux-headers-3.13.0-30-generic                       3.13.0-30.55                                        amd64        Linux kernel headers for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-headers-generic                                 3.13.0.30.36                                        amd64        Generic Linux kernel headers
ii  linux-image-3.13.0-24-generic                         3.13.0-24.47                                        amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-3.13.0-27-generic                         3.13.0-27.50                                        amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-3.13.0-29-generic                         3.13.0-29.53                                        amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-3.13.0-30-generic                         3.13.0-30.55                                        amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-24-generic                   3.13.0-24.47                                        amd64        Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-27-generic                   3.13.0-27.50                                        amd64        Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-29-generic                   3.13.0-29.53                                        amd64        Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-30-generic                   3.13.0-30.55                                        amd64        Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-generic                                   3.13.0.30.36                                        amd64        Generic Linux kernel image

[coffeecat]

@laurietruluck, I won't interfere with excellent the help you are getting in removing unwanted kernels, but please would you do something for the community? You installed Ubuntu specifying a whole disc LVM installation either with or without encryption. That is why the installer set up a separate /boot partition. Unfortunately, the default and only size for the boot partition is a little under 256MB, which is far too small. Please mark this bug as affecting you:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...y/+bug/1357093

You need a launchpad account which is easy to set up. Once you have logged into LP, you can click the link to say it affects you, which will help raise the heat on the bug and hopefully lead to serious attention. Please don't post any comment on the bug thread unless you really need to - let's try to keep this bug free of unnecessary background noise.

@everyone helping: please bookmark this bug and get others you help who are in the same situation marking it as affecting them too. Thanks.

[laurietruluck]

@coffeecat - I've now done what you've advised, thanks for your help.

[kansasnoob]

@laurietruluck, I won't interfere with excellent the help you are getting in removing unwanted kernels, but please would you do something for the community? You installed Ubuntu specifying a whole disc LVM installation either with or without encryption. That is why the installer set up a separate /boot partition. Unfortunately, the default and only size for the boot partition is a little under 256MB, which is far too small. Please mark this bug as affecting you:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...y/+bug/1357093

You need a launchpad account which is easy to set up. Once you have logged into LP, you can click the link to say it affects you, which will help raise the heat on the bug and hopefully lead to serious attention. Please don't post any comment on the bug thread unless you really need to - let's try to keep this bug free of unnecessary background noise.

@everyone helping: please bookmark this bug and get others you help who are in the same situation marking it as affecting them too. Thanks.

I "me too'ed" that also, and subscribed. That's a ridiculous design flaw

At best a default LVM/encrypted install would be good for maybe three kernel updates ................ what were they thinking?