I have a 20 GB boot drive yet I keep getting low mem notices - it uses 18 GB+. Is that correct? I see other posts that people have much smaller boot drives w/o problems. It usually only happens when I install new software. BTW, I'm running Ubuntu 18.04.
ls -sh
total 927M
4.0K bin 0 dev 0 initrd.img 4.0K lib32 4.0K media 0 proc 12K sbin 927M swapfile 4.0K usr 0 vmlinuz.old
4.0K boot 12K etc 0 initrd.img.old 4.0K lib64 4.0K mnt 4.0K root 4.0K snap 0 sys 4.0K var
4.0K cdrom 4.0K home 4.0K lib 16K lost+found 4.0K opt 0 run 4.0K srv 4.0K tmp 0 vmlinuz
df /boot
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 20054232 17657208 1355260 93% /
du -hxd1 /boot
8.0M /boot/grub
58M /boot
ls -sh /boot
total 50M
220K config-5.0.0-23-generic 4.0K grub 180K memtest86+.bin 184K memtest86+_multiboot.bin 8.4M vmlinuz-5.0.0-23-generic 4.0K efi
df /boot
,du -hxd1 /boot
,ls -sh /boot
,etc. (Assuming your boot drive is mounted on/boot
) – muru Aug 16 '20 at 01:12sudo apt autoremove
should take care of those - if that's indeed the issue. It'll also keep a copy of the previous kernel so that you have a fallback. – KGIII Aug 16 '20 at 01:21ls -sh
entirely (by editing your post and using the code markup) just to make sure I see it completely. – KGIII Aug 16 '20 at 02:04/boot
is on a separate partition. You have single root partition which contains everything. – muru Aug 16 '20 at 05:32