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[Doug McNutt <dmcnutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Very helpful Mr. Ager-Wick

Its strange that partitions show up as /boot under, somehow under /dev/sda1.
I guess that makes sence but I also have a disk reported as
/dev/sdb1   /media/kit/UNTITLED
which is actually a portable disk tied in by USB connections. (kit is 
another user)
/dev/null/ is about my level of usage for /dev at all. I shall work on that.
Is there, perhaps, something wrong with reporting usage that start with 
/dev?
/dev/dm-0, or perhaps dm-O, shows 143G size and 72G used  and I have no 
idea where or what it's used for. It sounds like I might have a problem 
there.
Currently:
/dev/sda1       236M  144M   80M  65% /boot
which will be OK for a while but I had no idea that it was a partition 
rather than a simple directory. There is a real directory /div/ which 
could also be handling it within the system. I assumed that while 
deleting older entries and it worked with simple rm commands.

On 01/06/2016 09:33 AM, Ronny Ager-Wick wrote:
> @dmcnutt /boot is usually a separate partition, byt default around
> 250MB, which is way too small. Use command "df" to see how much space
> you have left on each partition. if /boot is nearly full, it doesn't
> help if / has loads of space.
>

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/798414

Title:
  update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't
  enough  free space

Status in initramfs-tools:
  Confirmed
Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

  When generating a new initramfs there is no check for available free
  space, subsequently its possible for update-initramfs to fail due to a
  lack of free space.  This is resulting in package installation
  failures for initramfs-tools.  For example:

  Setting up initramfs-tools (0.98.8ubuntu3) ...
  update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
  Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
  update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic

  gzip: stdout: No space left on device
  E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1
  update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
  dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

  WORKAROUND:

  Remove unused kernels using computer janitor (not in repositories for
  14.04 or later) or manually free space on your partition containing
  the /boot file system.

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