Boot is full

Posted by Marius Voila on June 22, 2012 in London, U.K . — 0 comments This post contains 242 words

Did you ever tried to upgrade your Ubunu server and got this error The upgrade needs a total of 15.7M free space on disk ‘/boot’. Please free at least an additional 9324k of disk space on ‘/boot’. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations using ‘sudo apt-get clean’. but sadly apt-get clean didn’t worked? I had the same problem on 145 of my Ubuntu servers and this is how I solve it:

First of all we need to find out how many kernel versions we have installed and we do this using this command:

marius@valhalla:/boot$ dpkg -l | grep linux-image

And this is MY output:

ii  linux-image-2.6.32-30-server  2.6.32-30.59  Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-31-server  2.6.32-31.61  Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-32-server  2.6.32-32.62  Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-33-server  2.6.32-33.72  Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-34-server  2.6.32-34.77  Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
iF  linux-image-2.6.32-35-server  2.6.32-35.78  Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
iU  linux-image-server            2.6.32.36.42  Linux kernel image on Server Equipment.

so the solution is easy…just get rid of your old kernels by using(I’m using dpkg just because in my case apt-get purge –remove didn’t worked:

sudo dpkg --remove linux-image-2.6.32-30-serverlinux-image-2.6.32-32-server

Now all you have to do is apt-get -f install and your server will start the upgrade.