Comment 22 for bug 104337

"I think what's using up so much space is that it rebuilds all
initrd.imgs it can find and backups the old ones and then adds
additional entries to your boot menu."

I think it may be doing more than this because I have cleaned out every single image with the exception of the four I absolutely need, and those are only 6-7M each. Even if it makes a backup and a new image, I can't see it using up all of the space. My newest usage stats are below.

I'm really stuck right now because I can't resize my boot partition, and I can't clean any more out of it. I absolutely cannot upgrade to Gutsy unless a workaround is found, or the space requirement is lowered. Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,
-Ryan

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bobo@Sixteen:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/Ubuntu-root
                       75G 21G 54G 28% /
varrun 253M 88K 252M 1% /var/run
varlock 253M 4.0K 253M 1% /var/lock
procbususb 253M 124K 252M 1% /proc/bus/usb
udev 253M 124K 252M 1% /dev
devshm 253M 0 253M 0% /dev/shm
lrm 253M 34M 219M 14% /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-386/volatile
/dev/mapper/hda5 228M 47M 170M 22% /boot

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bobo@Sixteen:/boot$ ls -lah
total 43M
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 3.0K 2007-08-26 18:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 656 2007-08-06 11:42 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 280K 2006-12-05 16:42 abi-2.6.17-10-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 280K 2007-03-13 18:46 abi-2.6.17-11-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 402K 2007-04-15 03:01 abi-2.6.20-15-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 402K 2007-06-07 15:51 abi-2.6.20-16-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74K 2006-12-05 14:38 config-2.6.17-10-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74K 2007-03-13 16:42 config-2.6.17-11-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82K 2007-04-15 00:04 config-2.6.20-15-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82K 2007-06-07 12:48 config-2.6.20-16-386
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1.0K 2007-08-22 21:35 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.9M 2007-05-01 01:58 initrd.img-2.6.17-10-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.9M 2007-05-01 01:57 initrd.img-2.6.17-11-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.9M 2007-05-01 01:57 initrd.img-2.6.20-15-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.9M 2007-08-06 11:42 initrd.img-2.6.20-16-386
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12K 2002-04-19 19:59 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 93K 2006-10-20 06:44 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 697K 2006-12-05 16:42 System.map-2.6.17-10-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 699K 2007-03-13 18:46 System.map-2.6.17-11-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 771K 2007-04-15 03:03 System.map-2.6.20-15-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 771K 2007-06-07 15:52 System.map-2.6.20-16-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6M 2006-12-05 16:42 vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6M 2007-03-13 18:46 vmlinuz-2.6.17-11-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6M 2007-04-15 03:01 vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7M 2007-06-07 15:51 vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-386

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bobo@Sixteen:/boot$ du -h
12K ./lost+found
169K ./grub
43M .

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[DIALOG BOX]
Not enough free disk space

The upgrade aborts now. The upgrade needs a total of 325058560 free space on disk /boot. Please free at least an additional 148M of disk space on /boot. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.
[/DIALOG BOX]