Comment 18 for bug 104337

Just figured I'd add in my own experience with this bug on an upgrade to Gutsy Tribe3, as I haven't seen anyone with quite as hefty of a space requirement as what update-manager is asking of me. 315MB in addition to the 228 that is on there adds up to a rather large boot partition.

I have two questions:

1) What portion of the current upgrade process is taking up this space

2) Can we look at streamlining it so that less space is used, or at least the space requirement stays constant? No standard user should have to face repartitioning/resizing during an upgrade.

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bobo@Sixteen:~$ update-manager -d
...
[DIALOG BOX]
Not enough free disk space

The upgrade aborts now. The upgrade needs a total of 325058560 free space on disk /boot. Please free at least an additional 313M of disk space on /boot. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.
[/DIALOG BOX]

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bobo@Sixteen:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/Ubuntu-root
                       75G 53G 23G 71% /
varrun 253M 84K 252M 1% /var/run
varlock 253M 4.0K 253M 1% /var/lock
procbususb 253M 112K 252M 1% /proc/bus/usb
udev 253M 112K 252M 1% /dev
devshm 253M 0 253M 0% /dev/shm
lrm 253M 34M 219M 14% /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-386/volatile
/dev/mapper/hda5 228M 205M 12M 95% /boot
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Cheers,
-Ryan