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[Achim Behrens <1357093@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This really needs to be adressed ASAP.

The Support Communites are flooded by angry users with blocked
Packagesystems due to a full /boot blocking new kernels to be installed.

In this time, when we have 5TB HDDs and even 500GB SSDs, i really dont know why we still need that small /boot partitions that it runs out of space that fast.
And having no automatic removing old kernels is another issue.

This really spoils the user experience, and non technical users really
dont know what to do and dont feel comfortable to delete files in /boot
manually. So best is do increase the /boot partition made on install and
have a post-install script running that removes old kernels.

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Title:
  Kernels not autoremoving, causing out of space error on LVM or
  Encrypted install

Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Currently if one chooses to use LVM or encrypted install, a /boot
  partition is created of 236Mb

  Once kernel updates start being released this partition soon fills
  until people are left unable to upgrade.

  While you and I might know that we need to watch partition space, many
  of the people we have installing think that a windows disk is a disk
  and not a partition, education is probably the key - but in the
  meantime support venues keep needing to deal with the fact the
  partition is too small and/or old kernels are not purged as new ones
  install.

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