Comment 148 for bug 798414

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s frahm (sfrahm) wrote : Re: update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't enough free space

Yes sir (jarnos), thank you. This same recurring Bug #1460396 by many names. Is there a patch like this that also works on 16.04 Lubuntu LTS ?? Every time I have researched it over the years, there are variations on this theme. This should be a core functionality of each LTS package upon launch at minimum. What I am trying to get at, are the possibilities of even more helpful suggestions and options upon install, such as how large would you like /root to be? (say 1-5 GB) and how many old kernel versions would you like to keep (2-3 minimum as a safe default) Yes, pruning old kernels automagically could be dangerous, but more so is crashing 1/2 completed upgrades IMHO. Thanks to all!