No space in "boot"
Every time I start my computer I get this message. I have no idea what I should do. Should I delete some of these files and in that case which?
Thanks in advance!
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You really shouldn't separate /boot into a different partition unless you're using a filesystem for / that would cause problems with the bootloader. But since you apparently did this, what you'll have to do to deal with this problem is delete old versions of Linux still on your system. Search for installed packages with "linux" in their name; you'll find packages with names starting with "linux-image" and packages with names starting with "linux-headers". Remove all of these except the most recent one.
One command you can use to find these packages is:
aptitude search "~i linux"
Thank you!
I am able to find a lot of packages but I am not able to delete any of them. It says I am not the owner. Do you know how I can delete them?
Use the package manager to remove the oldest kernels. onpon4 suggested 'aptitude' that runs in a terminal. It looks like you are more at ease with graphical interfaces. That is why I suggest you the "Synaptic package manager" in the "System settings".
Thank you! I was able to solve the problem in Synaptic. You are right, I am not so used to using the terminal. :)
Your partition is too small. I recommend you to make the boot partition around 500MB at least. I prefer to put 1GB.
The idea of make a separate partition for boot is to make backups of it without caring of what file system it uses, So, if something goes wrong you can simply put it back.
Keep doing it but with bigger sizes. Disks have enough space not to use it -_-
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I am a translator!
mine is 500 mb. I'm using 70 mb of it.
And I don't ever have to worry about this sort of thing because all 500 GB of
my drive go to /. (I also have 10 GB swap). I never understood the appeal of
separate partitions- IMLTHO they just tend to cause problems like this.
On the other hand, having a separate /home would be nice.
so what?
I mean, this guy's is not.
How do I change the size of it?
You could boot off a live cd/usb and use gparted. If you have a Trisquel media, you will find gparted there.
Note that you can't make xfs (Trisquel uses it by default) smaller yet. http://gparted.org/features.php
Okey, thank you! :)
You can backup (e.g., with Déjà-Dup) any directories you want, regardless on the filesystems they are on. And I do not see much point in making a backup of system files (you can easily reinstall the packages, or even the whole system).
Something anyone wants is a version of the kernel she is sure she can boot (and the GRUB password in /etc/grub.d/01_PASSWORD or, better, no bootloader authentication). In this way, you need no Live system if the latest installed kernel raises issues.
Here is something I found that cleans up all old Linuxes for you:
Hope it helps!
That 'sed' program is scary... :-)
More importantly, you had better keep a version of the kernel you know you can boot. The command line only keeps the most recent kernel and should only be used after spending a few days with the latest installed kernel and no problem with it.