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I am in Ubuntu 12.04.

When I install the software updates with "Update Manager", there is a pop up dialog which tells me "The volume "boot" has only 0 byte disk space remaining"

My current kernal in use is:

myname: ~$ uname -r
3.11.0-19-generic

The content of boot folder is:

Laptop1:~$ ls -lah /boot
total 215M
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 2,0K abr 26 14:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4,0K abr 26 14:48 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 983K oct 23  2013 abi-3.11.0-13-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 983K nov 12 18:33 abi-3.11.0-14-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 983K ene 30 18:53 abi-3.11.0-15-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 984K feb  3 23:20 abi-3.11.0-17-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 985K mar 11 20:06 abi-3.11.0-19-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 985K abr  1 23:08 abi-3.11.0-20-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 160K oct 23  2013 config-3.11.0-13-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 160K nov 12 18:33 config-3.11.0-14-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 160K ene 30 18:53 config-3.11.0-15-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 160K feb  3 23:20 config-3.11.0-17-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 160K mar 11 20:06 config-3.11.0-19-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 160K abr  1 23:08 config-3.11.0-20-generic
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 1,0K abr 26 14:48 grub
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  26M nov 23 17:56 initrd.img-3.11.0-13-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  26M dic 24 14:55 initrd.img-3.11.0-14-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  26M feb  1 20:46 initrd.img-3.11.0-15-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  26M feb 22 14:00 initrd.img-3.11.0-17-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  26M abr 22 20:57 initrd.img-3.11.0-19-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  26M abr 26 14:48 initrd.img-3.11.0-20-generic
drwx------  2 root root  12K oct 30 21:03 lost+found
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 173K jun 17  2013 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 175K jun 17  2013 memtest86+_multiboot.bin
-rw-------  1 root root 3,2M oct 23  2013 System.map-3.11.0-13-generic
-rw-------  1 root root 3,2M nov 12 18:33 System.map-3.11.0-14-generic
-rw-------  1 root root 3,2M ene 30 18:53 System.map-3.11.0-15-generic
-rw-------  1 root root 3,2M feb  3 23:20 System.map-3.11.0-17-generic
-rw-------  1 root root 3,2M mar 11 20:06 System.map-3.11.0-19-generic
-rw-------  1 root root 3,2M abr  1 23:08 System.map-3.11.0-20-generic
-rw-------  1 root root 5,4M oct 23  2013 vmlinuz-3.11.0-13-generic
-rw-------  1 root root 5,4M nov 12 18:33 vmlinuz-3.11.0-14-generic
-rw-------  1 root root 5,4M ene 30 18:53 vmlinuz-3.11.0-15-generic
-rw-------  1 root root 5,4M feb  3 23:20 vmlinuz-3.11.0-17-generic
-rw-------  1 root root 5,4M mar 11 20:06 vmlinuz-3.11.0-19-generic
-rw-------  1 root root 5,4M abr  1 23:08 vmlinuz-3.11.0-20-generic

Questions:

Among those files in boot folder, which can be removed?

Thank you:)

user274538
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The easiest way is to install Ubuntu Tweaks:

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Select the kernels you want to remove and go on --- I normally leave the newest of the current series and (if available) the older of the previous (like a 3.8 kernel).

Be careful that if you have some manually installed kernel (upstream, testing, etc) the janitor will remove all your automatically upgraded kernels if you tell him to remove all kernel in the list --- and then you need to reinstall manually linux-generic to go back to the standard kernel line. Do not delete the most recent old kernel as a rule of thumb and be safe.

Normally you have the error while upgrading, and that means you can have a failed upgrade linging; I would advise a 

sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

after the cleanup.

Rmano
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