I happened to come across this and thought of this thread, might be useful
for those old systems from when you could still fit a half-dozen kernels on
a 100mb partition.  I've not done initrd compression before, and slows it
down some, but as he says, better than reinstalling.

http://www.murraytwins.com/blog/?p=156

-mb

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 7:29 PM, der.hans <PLUGd@lufthans.com> wrote:

> Am 18. Sep, 2017 schwätzte Michael Butash so:
>
> I've had to move the initrd's elsewhere when they've filled up /boot as
>> well.  Move all but one in use and deleting to where ever you have space,
>> delete the linux-images gracefully with apt, moving another back when
>> deleting it next.
>>
>> Anymore I give boot a 500mb-1g boot drive because kernels are getting
>> huge,
>> I got tired of breaking things with 100-200mb /boot drives across time.
>>
>
> Yeah, I have a couple systems with postage stamp sized boot partitions :(.
> They're annoying.
>
> It's like a swap partition, it uses so little space compared to the size
> of the hard drive that it's mostly irrelevant.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>
> -mb
>>
>>
>>
>> Move the old initrds to somewhere that has more space, then reboot and see
>>> if anything breaks?  dpkg saying that the files are not owned by anything
>>> sounds reasonable if they're built dynamically.
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