Hi again, After an automatic update it's about to happen again (I got a low disk space warning for /boot) so I'll list details and see what happens.
/boot$ ls -a -h -l total 208M drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1.0K Jun 29 10:52 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4.0K Jun 29 10:51 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 213K May 15 13:48 config-4.15.0-51-generic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 213K Jun 4 21:33 config-4.15.0-52-generic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 213K Jun 24 10:39 config-4.15.0-54-generic drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1.0K Jun 29 10:53 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57M Jun 21 18:21 initrd.img-4.15.0-51-generic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57M Jun 29 10:52 initrd.img-4.15.0-52-generic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57M Jun 29 10:52 initrd.img-4.15.0-54-generic drwx------ 2 root root 12K May 10 11:01 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 179K Jan 28 2016 memtest86+.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 181K Jan 28 2016 memtest86+.elf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 181K Jan 28 2016 memtest86+_multiboot.bin -rw------- 1 root root 3.9M May 15 13:48 System.map-4.15.0-51-generic -rw------- 1 root root 3.9M Jun 4 21:33 System.map-4.15.0-52-generic -rw------- 1 root root 3.9M Jun 24 10:39 System.map-4.15.0-54-generic -rw------- 1 root root 8.0M May 15 15:11 vmlinuz-4.15.0-51-generic -rw------- 1 root root 8.0M Jun 4 21:39 vmlinuz-4.15.0-52-generic -rw------- 1 root root 8.0M Jun 24 11:21 vmlinuz-4.15.0-54-generic Free space is listed as 7.1MB Results of sudo apt autoremove Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED linux-headers-4.15.0-51 linux-headers-4.15.0-51-generic linux-image-4.15.0-51-generic linux-modules-4.15.0-51-generic linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-51-generic 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 5 to remove and 7 not to upgrade. After this operation, 334 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 233764 files and directories currently installed.) Removing linux-headers-4.15.0-51-generic (4.15.0-51.55) ... Removing linux-headers-4.15.0-51 (4.15.0-51.55) ... Removing linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-51-generic (4.15.0-51.55) ... Removing linux-image-4.15.0-51-generic (4.15.0-51.55) ... /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools: update-initramfs: Deleting /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-51-generic /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub: Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub' Generating grub configuration file ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-54-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-54-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-52-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-52-generic Found memtest86+ image: /memtest86+.elf Found memtest86+ image: /memtest86+.bin done Removing linux-modules-4.15.0-51-generic (4.15.0-51.55) ... Not all of this 334MB has been cleared from /boot Here is another file listing: total 139M drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1.0K Jun 29 11:07 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4.0K Jun 29 10:51 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 213K Jun 4 21:33 config-4.15.0-52-generic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 213K Jun 24 10:39 config-4.15.0-54-generic drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1.0K Jun 29 11:07 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57M Jun 29 10:52 initrd.img-4.15.0-52-generic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57M Jun 29 10:52 initrd.img-4.15.0-54-generic drwx------ 2 root root 12K May 10 11:01 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 179K Jan 28 2016 memtest86+.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 181K Jan 28 2016 memtest86+.elf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 181K Jan 28 2016 memtest86+_multiboot.bin -rw------- 1 root root 3.9M Jun 4 21:33 System.map-4.15.0-52-generic -rw------- 1 root root 3.9M Jun 24 10:39 System.map-4.15.0-54-generic -rw------- 1 root root 8.0M Jun 4 21:39 vmlinuz-4.15.0-52-generic -rw------- 1 root root 8.0M Jun 24 11:21 vmlinuz-4.15.0-54-generic There is now 79.5MB in /boot Is this enough. I'm suggesting not since this keeps recurring. Autoremove may indeed be working fine, but it seems to me that the default installer has set the /boot partition size value inappropriately low. Am I right? I suspect that when I posted the OP, that autoremove merely couldn't remove enough space for a bulky update, rather than 'didn't work' as I wrote. Thanks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1833556 Title: Default, encrypted install runs out of /boot space after 2 months To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1833556/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
