Ubuntu
update-manager package

  1. Bug #1183692
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 1183692

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Rob Hills (rhills) wrote :

Agree with the above. There should be a simple, foolproof-as-possible way to manage boot device free space. I am currently trying to rescue my wife's computer from an incomplete 14.04LTS -> 16.04LTS upgrade that has failed near the end because it ran out of space on /boot. THIS SHOULD NOT HAPPEN!
Maybe I should have known to check for adequate free space on /boot before doing an upgrade, but if I should have known that, so should the upgrader and it should have checked and warned me BEFORE STARTING the upgrade!

Ideally the upgrade process should offer the option of clearing out old kernels (there were only 2 there apart from the one in use) before proceeding.