I have a suggestion for the whole mess, Scan the /boot folder/drive with "Disk Usage Analyzer", then you can know what is that which takes so much space in your boot drive...
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:09 PM, K Ramnarayan <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi > > Was trying to update my 9.10 install. > > Seems like there are some new kernal updates which meant that somethings > were > being written to grub. > > My Grub is located in a separate /boot parition of about 99 mb > > and now i get this message > "Volume Boot has only 698 kb disk space left" > > You can free up disk space by removing unused programs or files or by > removing > files or programes to another partition or disk. > > The problem does not end there itself - all the current updates failed to > get > updated and now when i try synaptic i get the following error > > " > E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' > to > correct the problem. > E: _cache->open() failed, please report. " > > and when i try the > sudo dpkg --configure -a > this is what happens > > Setting up initramfs-tools (0.92bubuntu53) ... > update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) > > Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-22-generic-pae > > gzip: stdout: No space left on device > update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-22-generic-pae > dpkg: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit > status > 1 > -laptop:~$ > > *** > i jave atleast 4 different kernals installed and am not sure how to > navigate he > new Grub - its not as easy as earlier and am not sure how to create more > space > .(there is a tutorial to move grub but it seems quite dicey to me) > > This is affecting my OS performance as some programmes are beginning to > crash > or freeze (firefox) and i can't help but think its because of incomplete > updates > > so any suggestions advice links would be appreciated. > > ram > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
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