On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 04:39:22PM -0800, Vedanta Teacher wrote: > Everyone, > > I'm running a relatively new HP Pavilion desktop with: > Mint 18.0 Cinnamon 64-bit > Version 3.0.7 > Linux Kernel 4.4.0-47-generic > RAM 14.6 > HD 945.9GB > > Yesterday it threw a message at my of: Boot is Full > > I've used the default installation settings for Boot & Grub.
Presumably, you have both a boot and a main partition. Most distros are set up this way. Mint is probably set up to run automated updates, which means it adds new kernels with security fixes from time to time, and does not delete the old ones. If you installed Mint with a "just big enough" boot partition, a few updates will add enough kernels to fill it. Your boot partition is too small. The easiest way to fix this is with a "live flash drive" (like a live CD), using gparted with a GUI. A live CD will work just as well (but slower). I'm pretty sure Mint has a live flash drive version. If not, you can do this with an Ubuntu live (CD/flash). With gparted, you can make the main partition smaller, and then the boot partition bigger. With a one terabyte hard drive, I would make the boot partition at least 10 GB, or more than 5 times as much space as it uses now. That is way more than you will probably ever need, but you won't ever have to deal with this error again. You can also use text editors and command line tools from the install (CD/flash) in repair mode, and remove the older kernels. This is not a difficult fix, but it is easy to screw up, so I do not recommend it for the not-yet-adept who have monster hard drives like yours. There's a small chance that your boot partition is fine, but you are intentionally storing stuff in boot that doesn't belong there. Don't do that, move those unholy files to your main partition, and sin no more. You can do that with a live CD, or in repair mode, too. But if the distro put those files in boot, let not man split asunder. :-) Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
