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After an update of my Ubuntu I came to the error, "I cannot update since /boot is full". The thing is, that when I compared the results of the two following commands $dpkg --list 'linux-image*', $uname -r I noticed that I use an older kernel. In my case the second command gave 3.13.0-24-generic and the first gave many newer version kernels e.g. linux-image-3.13.0-46-generic. The question is 1.why Grub does not update to a new kernel version? 2.I am not sure which kernel versions to delete in order to free some space in /boot. The question here My /boot partition hit 100% and now I can't upgrade. Can't remove old kernels to make room answers how to free some space but not why my Grub does not use the newer kernel vesrions.

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  • Which version of Ubuntu are you using at this point? – Terrance8D Mar 25 '15 at 18:02
  • Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS – 111 Mar 25 '15 at 18:18
  • possible duplicate of [My /boot partition hit 100% and now I can't upgrade. Can't remove old kernels to make room](http://askubuntu.com/questions/171209/my-boot-partition-hit-100-and-now-i-cant-upgrade-cant-remove-old-kernels-to) – user68186 Mar 25 '15 at 18:27

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You may want to try following the readme at: https://github.com/erichs/bootnukem

git clone https://github.com/erichs/bootnukem.git
cd bootnukem
sudo ./install.sh

Then

./bootnukem --dry-run
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