[Swlug] Boot directory

[Colin Law]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 10:47, Bill Thomson via Swlug
<swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Thanks Colin, I'll try that later today

I wasn't necessarily suggesting you change it on this system, that
could be tricky.

Colin

>
> Thanks for all your help!
>
> Bill
>
> On 18 Sep 2019 10:10, Colin Law via Swlug <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 10:04, Bill Thomson via Swlug
> <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Colin, that seems to have done the trick! I've freed up in excess of 2Gb in the boot directory - thank you!
> >
>
> For future reference I believe it is generally considered better not
> to have a separate partition for /boot as it can give rise to this
> problem.  Just put /boot in the main root (/) partition so that it
> will not fill up.  If it /boot actually fills up completely it can be
> a big pain to recover as you can't then run autoremove, you have to
> manually remove the old kernels.
>
> Colin
>
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