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05-16-2017, 10:53 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2017
Location: Keller, TX
Posts: 6
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how to increase size of /boot
my /boot is showing only 11% available of 250 mb. how do i increase that? can i? do i want to?
keep in mind i'm an intel troop and am truly learning a new OS. will the fact that the /boot directory is almost full impact performance?
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05-17-2017, 12:09 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Australia
Distribution: Lots ...
Posts: 21,439
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Probably of no concern - it isn't used in day-to-day running. But it might cause a software update to fail.
Maybe.
You need to learn to include relevant info so we can answer you. Post the output of these for a start so we can get an idea of what you have available to expand into.
Code:
df -hT
sudo parted /dev/sda "print free"
That second one will ask for your password.
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05-17-2017, 12:56 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: USA and Italy
Distribution: Debian testing/sid; OpenSuSE; Fedora; Mint
Posts: 5,524
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You could remove some kernel packages you aren't using. To find the current kernel version: Then, depending on your distro, use the package management tool to uninstall the other kernels.
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05-17-2017, 06:43 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Aug 2002
Posts: 26,907
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As stated kernel updates will fail. Although increasing the partition size will help in the short term it will still be a problem since old kernels are never removed.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RemoveOldKernels
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05-17-2017, 07:31 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: SE Tennessee, USA
Distribution: Gentoo, LFS
Posts: 11,362
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Quote:
Originally Posted by michaelk
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My "usual sequence of update commands" always does an auto-remove of old packages, including old kernels. But, always do this sort of thing using the package-management system.  The package-manager expects to know what is and isn't on your system, and it will complain (loudly) if something that it expects to remove isn't there. It will also "do all the right 'other' things," like rebuilding the GRUB configuration files and maintaining kernel-module repositories.
/boot only really needs to contain the current kernel and one previous one. And, nearly all the time, the previous one is never used (again). However, the automatic-removal process should take care of this sort of thing for you, "automagically." Which is what you want.
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05-17-2017, 08:36 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: ...uncanny valley... infinity\1975; (randomly born:) Milwaukee, WI, US( + travel,) Earth&Mars (I wish,) END BORDER$!◣◢┌∩┐ Fe26-E,e...
Distribution: any GPL that work on freest-HW; has been KDE, CLI, Novena-SBC but open.. http://goo.gl/NqgqJx &c ;-)
Posts: 4,888
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This far along just reinstall with no boot partition /home maybe:(‽:) https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/u...weekly-builds/ backups, also, maybe? 
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