Hi,

I'm using Ubuntu 21. My /boot partition size is 500M and it's getting full:

/dev/sda1               446M  352M   61M  86% /boot

What's taking space are mainly these:

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 153M heinä  10 14:22 initrd.img-5.11.0-22-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 151M heinä  23 13:13 initrd.img-5.11.0-25-generic

apt-get upgrade fails:

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.11.0-25-generic
Error 24 : Write error : cannot write compressed block
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 lz4 -9 -l 24
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-5.11.0-25-generic with 1.
dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
 installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess
returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Resizing the partitions is very complicated because I'm using an encrypted
partition ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ResizeEncryptedPartitions ).
So that's really not an option for me.

How to fix this:

I suggest that apt-get/dpkg handles upgrading outside /boot. Two kernels
seem to fit there if the updating is done cleverly. Or if only one kernel
fits, then keep only on kernel in /boot.

Thanks,
Ilkka

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