16.04 LTS Xenial: not enough free space on boot partition when trying to update

Zurkan 2017-03-08 23:58:31 UTC #1

Hi, my problem is that when i try to update my raspberry it say that i don't have enough free space on boot partition... I know that !!! Its only 66mb and i don't want anything there, i want it all in the root partition that have 16gb free, but it don't let me choose where I want it. So does it mean that the 16.04 version is broken... plz help me I dont know a darn thing on Ubuntu especially on raspberry pi 3...

Raspberry /boot

Milliways 2017-03-09 07:34:16 UTC #2

Have you read https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/no-room-on-boot-for-updates/11336?u=milliways

M_Rusli 2017-03-09 08:54:55 UTC #3

I too get the same problem with ubuntu-mate 16.04.2 ... until I could not do any more software updates!

Ray73NH 2017-03-10 17:01:32 UTC #4

I have posted a You Tube video with a work around for this problem by creating a larger PI_BOOT partition at:

I hope this helps,
Ray

GuinnessStout 2017-05-08 08:29:29 UTC #5

Ray,

Super post. It helped me out. Was racking my brain to figure a way to gain more space with cleaning up. Just a question, why did you give the /boot partition so much space? Do you image that it will grow?

Ray73NH 2017-05-08 23:39:37 UTC #6

I pulled the partition size out of thin air. You could make it much
smaller, but I had a 16 Gb micro sd card so space wasn't a problem