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/ 3 Years ago, tue, october 5, 2021, 3:49:13
The upgrade from Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.10 aborts right after starting, due to the /boot partition having only 54MB size.
The server has 2 hard disks with 2 partitions each, being connected via RAID1.
Since the server is located in a datacenter, it cannot be booted with a live system disk, to use gparted. The rescue system, loaded via network, does not access the hard disk (fdisk -l is empty there).
Question being:
How can I make /boot bigger, so the initial RAM disks fit into (suggested: 300MB)?
do-release-upgrade shows this:
Not enough free disk space
The upgrade has aborted. The upgrade needs a total of 55.2 M free
space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additional 29.2 M of
disk space on '/boot'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages
of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.
uname -r shows this:
3.5.0-47-generic
dpkg -l linux-im* shows this:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-======================================-========================-========================-=================================================================================
un linux-image <none> (no description available)
un linux-image-2.6 <none> (no description available)
un linux-image-2.6.24-16-server <none> (no description available)
un linux-image-2.6.24-23-server <none> (no description available)
un linux-image-2.6.24-24-server <none> (no description available)
un linux-image-2.6.24-25-server <none> (no description available)
un linux-image-2.6.24-28-server <none> (no description available)
rc linux-image-2.6.32-32-generic-pae 2.6.32-32.62 i386 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
rc linux-image-2.6.32-45-generic-pae 2.6.32-45.104 i386 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
rc linux-image-2.6.32-46-generic-pae 2.6.32-46.108 i386 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
rc linux-image-2.6.32-47-generic-pae 2.6.32-47.109 i386 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
rc linux-image-2.6.32-48-generic-pae 2.6.32-48.110 i386 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
rc linux-image-2.6.32-53-generic-pae 2.6.32-53.115 i386 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
rc linux-image-2.6.32-54-generic-pae 2.6.32-54.116 i386 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
rc linux-image-2.6.32-55-generic-pae 2.6.32-55.117 i386 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
un linux-image-3.0 <none> (no description available)
ii linux-image-3.5.0-47-generic 3.5.0-47.71 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.5.0-47-generic 3.5.0-47.71 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.5.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-generic 3.5.0.47.63 i386 Generic Linux kernel image
ii linux-image-generic-pae 3.5.0.47.63 i386 Transitional package
ls -la /boot shows this:
total 26028
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 Mar 1 14:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Mar 1 14:23 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 2324217 Feb 19 01:28 System.map-3.5.0-47-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 862198 Feb 19 01:28 abi-3.5.0-47-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 154687 Feb 19 01:28 config-3.5.0-47-generic
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Mar 1 14:23 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18016141 Mar 1 14:24 initrd.img-3.5.0-47-generic
drwx------ 2 root root 1024 Jul 30 2011 lost+found
-rw------- 1 root root 5175536 Feb 19 01:28 vmlinuz-3.5.0-47-generic
df -h shows this:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1 458G 161G 275G 37% /
udev 2.0G 4.0K 2.0G 1% /dev
tmpfs 809M 304K 809M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /run/shm
none 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user
/dev/md0 54M 26M 25M 51% /boot
fdisk -l shows this:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00024aac
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 112454 56196 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda2 112455 2216969 1052257+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 2216970 976768064 487275547+ fd Linux raid autodetect
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0002518c
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 63 112454 56196 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb2 112455 2216969 1052257+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3 2216970 976768064 487275547+ fd Linux raid autodetect
Disk /dev/md1: 499.0 GB, 498970066944 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 121818864 cylinders, total 974550912 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/md0: 57 MB, 57475072 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 14032 cylinders, total 112256 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
cat /proc/mdstat shows this:
Personalities : [raid1] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10]
md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1]
56128 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md1 : active raid1 sdb3[1] sda3[0]
487275456 blocks [2/2] [UU]
unused devices: <none>
lspci -v | grep RAID shows this:
01:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Broadcom BCM5785 [HT1000] SATA (Native SATA Mode) (prog-if 05)
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