"Not enough free disk space" when using Software Updater
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Ubuntu Pi Flavour Maker |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
I installed Ubuntu-mate 16.04.2 on a Raspberry Pi 3 and when I ran Software Updater I received the error message "The upgrade needs a total of 48.2M free space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additional 4,080 k of disk space on '/boot'. ..."
I used another computer running Ubuntu and using Gparted I deleted my PI_BOOT partition (after copying the contents to a folder in Home) and shrunk the PI_ROOT partition. I then created a 1 Gb Fat32 partition, labled it PI_BOOT, and copied the files back into the partition.
I was now able to run Software Updater with sucess.
The initial size of the PI_BOOT partition in the ubuntu-
| rusli (mrusliathome) wrote | #1 |
| rusli (mrusliathome) wrote | #2 |
| no longer affects: | ubuntu-mate |
| Kevin (devildogwillbur) wrote | #3 |
I too having the same problem with ubuntu-mate 16.04.2 distro for my raspberry pi 3.
I too get the same exact error while updating my 16.04.2.
How do I resize the boot partition????
Not only that my Google Chromium web browser keep getting Aw,snap! Error.
In addition, I could get the same HDMI resolution mode like the previously release of ubuntu-mate 16.04.1.