** Description changed: - I have a 100MB boot paritition and an initramfs that is 37MB. Once you - add in all the usual clutter in /boot there is 25MB or so of free space - left. + I have a small 100MB boot paritition and an initramfs that is 37MB. Once + you add in all the usual clutter in /boot there is 25MB or so of free + space left. I have a single kernel installed, there are no older + versions floating about. When I run the update-initramfs script, it fails with : gzip: stdout: No space left on device E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1 update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-21-generic with 1. Looking at the default update-initramfs script, it appears to try and create the new initramfs image on the boot partition, then rename it to the current one in use. It fails at the cpio step as there is insufficient room for both initramfs images in the partition. I have tweaked the script to allow it to create the initramfs image in /tmp and then move it to the desired location (as opposed to creating it / renaming it in the same location), however while it works for me (tm) I'm unsure if this breaks any other behaviour. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: initramfs-tools 0.122ubuntu8.1 [modified: usr/sbin/update-initramfs] ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: MATE Date: Wed Aug 24 10:36:33 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-23 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Linux Mint 18 "Sarah" - Release amd64 20160628 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: - TERM=xterm - PATH=(custom, no user) - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> - LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + TERM=xterm + PATH=(custom, no user) + XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> + LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: initramfs-tools UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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