Comment 51 for bug 1357093

Thanks for the update.

On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 at 03:00 Ta <email address hidden> wrote:

> Ok I managed to resolve this issue:
>
> opened file explorer as root using gksudo. I navigated to the boot
> folder then manually deleted all the gzip archives ( because I expect
> they would not be used).
>
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> Title:
> Kernels not autoremoving, causing out of space error on LVM or
> Encrypted installation or on any installation, when /boot partition
> gets full
>
> Status in unattended-upgrades package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Currently if one chooses to use LVM or encrypted install, a /boot
> partition is created of 236Mb
>
> Once kernel updates start being released this partition soon fills
> until people are left unable to upgrade.
>
> While you and I might know that we need to watch partition space, many
> of the people we have installing think that a windows disk is a disk
> and not a partition, education is probably the key - but in the
> meantime support venues keep needing to deal with the fact the
> partition is too small and/or old kernels are not purged as new ones
> install.
>
> For workaround and sytem repair, see
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/RemoveOldKernels
>
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Donat