How to free up space in my /boot partition

Diss · 30 Apr 2006 at 18:24

Hi

I am using Ubuntu and grub.

I set up a 50meg partition but its nearly full. The biggest are 4 files called "initrd.img-2.6.12-9-386" at 5 to 6 meg each.

Can i delete all but the 2 most recent ones? (Will it let me delete them?)

thanks

Diss

Berserker · 30 Apr 2006 at 18:32

Look at the Grub config and note the names of the old kernels you no longer use. Delete those from Grub, then delete the files.

Just make sure you do it right or you'll end up with an unbootable system.

I don't know if Ubuntu has some 'nice' way of doing this. Some distros do, some don't.

Diss · 30 Apr 2006 at 18:41

thanks Berserker

presumably its also OK to delete the corresponding system.map / abi /config files as well??

thnaks

Diss

Berserker · 30 Apr 2006 at 18:45

Yes indeed.

riven · 30 Apr 2006 at 20:53

Well it wouldn't be unbootable if it went wrong, you could just chroot in from a live cd and fix it.

Berserker · 30 Apr 2006 at 23:50

Fixing a deleted kernel might prove slightly challenging (but not impossible).