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

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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

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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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