Disk space error /boot

[lah7]

There's a topic that has been discussing this issue:

No room on /boot for updates

Thank you for your suggestion. After browsing the site you cite, I find two things: There is another, potentially simpler, work-around: if I enter “sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade” in a terminal window, the updating proceeds without a problem. There is no complaint of insufficient space. I have done this now several times without a hitch. There are many reports of systems becoming unusable after a kernel update. This is potentially a serious problem. Because the procedures for k…

It may be a bug with the Software Updater under Raspberry Pi / ARM, since it's architecture for kernel updates is different, and this program thinks it needs more space but it actually doesn't need /boot.

Some workarounds:

• Update through the terminal with these commands:

    sudo apt update
    sudo apt upgrade
  

  There's also this for updating the Raspberry Pi kernel, but use with caution.

    sudo rpi-update
  

• Upgrade using Synaptic, a package manager.

• Temporarily move out a large file in /boot like kernel.img, but you must move it back after updating with Software Updater, or you won't be able to boot later.

    sudo mv /boot/kernel.img /tmp
    sudo update-manager
    sudo mv /tmp/kernel.img /boot
  

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To actually extend the partition, you'll need to put your micro-SD card into the computer, a utility like GParted (for Linux) can resize the partitions.

Best take a backup of the card before resizing, just in case.