Comment 18 for bug 1357093

I have this problem but removing old kernels was only partly successful, probably because I used rm and not apt-get method. In fact, if you have a laptop, why use LVM at all? You are scarcely going to wander around with an external hard disk attached to it for the extension to a logical volume.

The installer needs to be a lot smarter about people's level of knowledge re partitions and kernels, and give options for adjusting some of the parameters, e.g. LVM v. normal partitions, size of /boot, guided removal of old kernels, perhaps keeping three consecutive updates (including the current working kernel).

I just went through a torrid attempt to use Gparted (doesn't recognise LVM lv's) and system-config-lvm (which shows the swap and boot partitions at one end of the sda5 red cylinder, and the logical view, which shows them at the OTHER end of the blue cylinder).

I am totally lost in techhead space so am resorting to a new install to "fix" this problem. I chose Ubuntu over Fedora, SuSE and all the rest because it seemed the most novice-friendly, but this ordeal has proved me wrong. 8^)