[SOLVED] Out of Space preventing remove of Kernels

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collPark234

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Good afternoon!

I have just recently started to have errors that say that I cannot update or remove kernels. The error states " error writing '/var/tmp/espmounts/5774-2509/EFI/proxmox/7.0.2-5-pve/initrd.img-7.0.2-5-pve': No space left on device". Apt autoremove gives the same error. Any ideas on what I can do to resolve this?

Thank you!
 
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Ok, too bad. In case you only want to keep the 7.0 kernels you can mount your efi partition and manually remove all the 6.x initrd.img and vmlinuz files there to make space so the apt process can complete.

mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/665C-E3E3 /mnt/efi
rm /mnt/efi/initrd.img-6*
rm /mnt/efi/vmlinuz-6*

Then do a check to see if the efi partition now actually has space with df -h /mnt/efi
And more elaborate: du -ah /mnt/efi to show all files on the efi partition and their sizes.

Then umount /mnt/efi and apt purge proxmox-kernel-6.* again.

If all...
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[SOLVED] Post in thread 'kernel update fail 6.14 to 7.0 no space left on device'

No, you apparantly have 2 EFI partitions configured, probably a mirrored disk setup.

Mount both EFI partitions:
mkdir /mnt/efi1 /mnt/efi2
mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/A437-70EE /mnt/efi1
mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/A438-D2C2 /mnt/efi2

Remove the old 6.* kernels:
rm -rf /mnt/efi1/EFI/proxmox/6.*
rm -rf /mnt/efi2/EFI/proxmox/6.*

Umount the EFI partitions:
umount /mnt/efi1 /mnt/efi2
rm -rf /mnt/ef1 /mnt/efi2

Purge the 6.* packages:
apt purge proxmox-kernel-6.*

Try the update again:
apt dist-upgrade

dpkg -l | grep...
 
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See for example:
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Post in thread 'Unable to remove kernel'

Ok, too bad. In case you only want to keep the 7.0 kernels you can mount your efi partition and manually remove all the 6.x initrd.img and vmlinuz files there to make space so the apt process can complete.

mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/665C-E3E3 /mnt/efi
rm /mnt/efi/initrd.img-6*
rm /mnt/efi/vmlinuz-6*

Then do a check to see if the efi partition now actually has space with df -h /mnt/efi
And more elaborate: du -ah /mnt/efi to show all files on the efi partition and their sizes.

Then umount /mnt/efi and apt purge proxmox-kernel-6.* again.

If all...
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Or another:

D

[SOLVED] Post in thread 'kernel update fail 6.14 to 7.0 no space left on device'

No, you apparantly have 2 EFI partitions configured, probably a mirrored disk setup.

Mount both EFI partitions:
mkdir /mnt/efi1 /mnt/efi2
mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/A437-70EE /mnt/efi1
mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/A438-D2C2 /mnt/efi2

Remove the old 6.* kernels:
rm -rf /mnt/efi1/EFI/proxmox/6.*
rm -rf /mnt/efi2/EFI/proxmox/6.*

Umount the EFI partitions:
umount /mnt/efi1 /mnt/efi2
rm -rf /mnt/ef1 /mnt/efi2

Purge the 6.* packages:
apt purge proxmox-kernel-6.*

Try the update again:
apt dist-upgrade

dpkg -l | grep...
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Thank you so much! I was trying to solve this all afternoon. This solved it for me.
 
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