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Questions tagged [boot-partition]

Questions about boot-partitions (/boot) in Ubuntu system. Ubuntu may have /boot directory under the system root partition/directory or it could have a different partition of its own.

Ubuntu uses standard Linux directory layout where boot files (such as the kernel, initrd, and boot loader GRUB) are mounted at /boot/. A boot partition in Ubintu/Linux can be can use a separate partition, or it can be within the root (/) partition/directory.

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What is the safest way to clean up /boot partition?

I have 200 MB assigned for the /boot partition. Whenever I try to update the kernel, I receive an error message that basically states /boot is full. What can I do to cleanup /boot and remove/backup the older kernels?
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Bash one-liner to delete only old kernels

I've seen lots of threads on how to free space on the /boot partition and that is my objective as well. However, I'm only interested in deleting old kernels and not each one of them but the current one. I need the solution to be a one-liner since…
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inotify_add_watch -- failed: "No space left on device"

I am facing a problem about "no space left on device" as shown in the Figure below. I am relatively a newbie and don't know much about linux. I am using Ubuntu 18.04. Checking out various blogs about my problem such as this one (which suggests…
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Error: partition table requires a separate partition for boot loader code (EFI issue)

The Issue I'm trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit, Mac alternate) on my 13" MacBook Pro (model 7,1. Mid-2010). The MacBook Pro is running OSX 10.8.3 and I'm trying to make it dual-bootable (i.e., so I can boot into Ubuntu or OSX). When booting…
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Why can't I Resize/Move in GParted?

I have a 12.04 LTS system running on my PC with a 320 GB hard drive. Unfortunately, I need to use Windows 7 in my lab. I tried doing this using a virtual machine (VirtualBox and VMware) but it was not good enough. I want to make a partition on my…
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How to boot Ubuntu from SSD drive which cannot be selected as boot device?

I have freshly installed Ubuntu 12.10 (64 bits) on an Asus S405CM-WX117H laptop (similar to this one) which features a 24GB SSD drive and a regular 500GB hard drive. I placed the / (ext4) root file system in the SSD drive and partitioned the regular…
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Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 8 dual boot problem where Windows 8 doesn't boot

I will brief about the problem, that how it started. I purchased a Sony VAIO (SVE15133CNW) laptop on May-2013, with pre-installed Windows 8 After couple of days I installed Ubuntu 13.04 using USB in a dual boot mode; Both were working fine for…
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How to repair partition table?

I have a dual boot computer with Windows 7 and Ubuntu on it. Recently, i was working in Windows7 and my flash had crashed, the computer rebooted to Error: Partition not found. Grub Rescue> I had made a Ubuntu Live CD and attempted at fixing it…
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How do I move /boot to a separate partition on UEFI system with current boot on btrfs?

I have Ubuntu 18.04 installed on a UEFI system with /boot on a btrfs partition (subvol=@). Because of recent changes in Ubuntu I always get grub timeout 30 sec. This is by design if /boot is on a btrfs partition. Part of /grub.cfg function…
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Accidentally deleted efi partition

So, I really screwed things up... Long story short, I deleted my windows 8.1 efi partition and now cannot boot into windows. Furthermore, I don't even have an efi partition left to create a linux install with (which it seems to need so it can put…
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How to free space on a full /boot partition?

Stuck running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a Lenova desktop with a small boot partition now with 0(zero) bytes after many upgrades. Currently at 4.4.0-71-generic but new upgrades fail. Have tried suggestions from many "solutions" but still can not…
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Why is /boot so small?

I recently had the warning that /boot was running out of space and I found this solution. Having rebooted and confirmed that I didn't fubar my system, I'm looking at why it happened in the first place? Okay so evidently there were a lot of kernels…
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Getting an error while mounting machine_config

I am trying to boot my system but, it is giving me an error as "An error occurred while mounting home/jack/jack-app/machine_config " Press S skip to mounting or M for manual recovery after this I restarted the system it worked…
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Moving /boot to a separate partition

I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a partition with BTRFS as its file system, but it appears that grub2 seems to have some issues with that file system. For some reason it takes it very long time to boot and it doesn't display OS-selection screen at…
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Can I recreate a destroyed /boot without reinstalling?

I was experimenting with an idea and /boot was put on the first 256MB of a 1GB flash drive. Windows destroyed the whole scheme when trying to add an NTFS partition after it in the unallocated space. Can I make a new /boot without having to…
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