possible to run out of space on /boot partition when installed using auto recipe & full-disk-encryption
Bug #1067106 reported by
Mark Russell
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #1675079: 16.04 LTS Partition /boot fills up with Kernel images, gets underwear in a twist.
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Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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partman-auto-crypto (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Quantal |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Saucy |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When choosing full disk encryption in the quantal version of Ubiquity, the resulting /boot partition seems small.
In my test installation /boot came to 228MB.
Assuming that each kernel+initrd comes to about 30MB, that doesn't leave much space for old kernels/initrds as kernel upgrades pile-up.
Many users do not know how to clear old kernels. A full /boot will mean that no further apt transactions can occur until older kernels are removed and the newer kernel installation is completed. Users will then be missing out on security updates, hardware enablements, and installing new packages.
description: | updated |
summary: |
- /boot partition should be larger when using auto full-disk-encryption + possible to run out of space on /boot partition when installed using + auto recipe & full-disk-encryption |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
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I'm assuming this is too late for Quantal. I'm suggesting this change for R. Thanks.