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[Bill Meier <798414@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lance,

I found that the installation creates a 241 meg partician that is a 
mirror of the /boot directory. That is what gets filled up. I finally 
gave up trying to make more space and reinstalled the system. I am not 
Ubuntu literate enough to figure out the command line instructions.

You would think they would create the larger space during the install if 
this becomes a problem. I like and use Ubuntu all the time and have 
recommended it to friends who are not as computer literate as myself. 
They will not be able to fix this themselves.

I have multiple hard drives, internal and external on my computer, so 
nothing on the drive containing the operating system is really 
important. All data is stored on other drives. starting over fresh is a 
pain in the butt, but put the problem off until The space is used up again.

Bill


On 02/19/2015 02:38 AM, LanceZ wrote:
> I have over 400GB free, so no I'm not low on disk 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 tools for generating an initramfs:
  Fix Released
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 or manually free space on
  your partition containing the /boot file system.

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