backups in /boot, are they necessary
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Ubuntu |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
I tried to "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" and it stopped:
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
mikko@unelma-
Säädän asetukset: initramfs-tools (0.85eubuntu20) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.
gzip: stdout: No space left on device
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.
dpkg: aliprosessi post-installation script palautti virhetilakoodin 1
Maybe I wasn't smart because I created only 73M /boot partition years ago. But it have been enough. Now I have normal and rt-kernel both. Only way to solve problem was delete or move some files manually. So I found there was backups of all the initrd.img -files. I moved them away from /boot and so I was able to run dpkg --configure -a.
But are these backup files needed some day or are they there only "just to make sure." Backup files took over 27M space, older normal and rt-kernels and the updated ones, 4 files in all.
| Nanley Chery (nanoman) wrote | #1 |
Backups are necessary in a case where a new kernel has problems compared to older ones. This easily enables a user to revert.
Marking as Invalid because this is more of a question than a bug. For questions please visit: https:/