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[ubuntu] boot partition filling up!

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http://ubuntuforums.org – when i installed ubuntu 12.04 (on SSD), i used the alternate ISO to make two primary partitions: first a /boot partition 300MB second /encrypted partition (rest of the space on the SSD!) when i update the system, more and more space is being used from the /boot partition and is currently 78% full. Question: how do i clear out unused / old files from the /boot partition? I don’t want to be doing an update and run out of room! Thanks (Hardware)

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Submitted by xskl on 11/16/2012

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So I ran update manager (on 12.10),

and it needs my boot partition to be a bit bigger (5 or 6 mb)... However my main partition is an LVM encrypted volume..

Does anyone have any ideas how to resize the LVM volume and increase the boot partition?

I found a few posts on it, but most are either super complex, from a few years ago, or both..

Regards

Andy

Ihave ubuntu 11.10 on 1 TB hard drive /home is seperate 890 GB partition swap is 8GB and boot is 9 GB now afrter shrinking /home and moving swap I have unallocated 23 GB between / boot and swap. I need to expand boot to the unallocated space as am getting low disk space warning in boot partition as there is only 796 MB unused in that partition.

I am on the ubuntu 12.04 64bit Beta right now. Having a more exotic partition setup:

- EFI - /boot PARTITION (fat) - LVM (encrypted) | |- /root |- /home |- /swap

Now I noticed that my boot partition doesn't get updated by the Update Manager. Thus new kernel images etc. get downloaded but to another /boot folder on the /root partition.

When I installed Ubuntu on this machine, I made the /boot partition only 100 MB. That has proven woefully inadequate, because every time a new linux-headers package comes down the pipe, I have to go uninstalling previous kernels to make enough space. I'd like to resize the /boot partition.

It's located at /dev/sdc5, which is right next to the / partition at /dev/sdc6.

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Hi everyone! First of all, sorry for my English. I got this problem and I hope you can help me :)

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-32-generic

gzip: stdout: No space left on device

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/boot is its own partition of 100 MB and 90% full. I can't install gparted to resize that partition. I can't figure out what's safe to delete to make more space on /boot.

What's the likely easiest way around this?