still don’t follow: should I shrink instead of resize?

debian 13 needs more boot space, my boot partition is too small to complete the upgrade

please eli5

is gparted better than KDE partition manager? or gnome’s?

or offline partition shrinking, moving after a data backup if you have personal files you care about

what you are saying is: copy all your data to another drive, expand the boot partition shrinking the main storage drive and then copying back?

just to avoid misunderstandings, I assume the final >french accent lemmy wont show< in your code is lemmy code and you forgot to type the >french accent lemmy wont show< at the beginning of the command, right? because the one without the >french accent lemmy wont show< returns -bash: update-initramfs: command not found

incidentally, another member suggested I run sudo dpkg-reconfigure initramfs-tools

it returns:

update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.148.3) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.12.41+deb13-amd64 zstd: error 70 : Write error : cannot write block : No space left on device E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 E: mkinitramfs failure zstd -q -9 -T0 70 update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-6.12.41+deb13-amd64 with 1. dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure): installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: initramfs-tools

but this is something I don’t understand. I deleted 6 old kernels already. There are only 3 left.

After checking KDE Partition Manager for /boot and /boot/efi both have free space left:

/boot size: 488 MiB

/boot used: 396.26 MiB

/boot/efi size: 512 MiB

/boot/efi used: 10.52 MiB

sorry, typed that wrong, debian 12.11

I listed all installed kernels:

dpkg -l | grep linux-image | awk ‘{print$2}’

then removed several old kernels:

sudo apt remove --purge linux-image-XXX

then updated grub:

sudo update-grub2

thanks. I did all that. Is it safe to reboot? don’t want to ruin the machine

if by fresh install you mean nuking the old partitions and installing brand new 13.0 from an usb stick no, this is not a fresh install, fresh as in just now installed

I am running trixie

in /etc/apt/sources.list.d there is only one txt file named debian.sources, as explained in debian’s instructions page. Is that wyat you mean?

I also updated grub after freeing some boot space: sudo update-grub2

upgraded from 12.11 to 13.0. I just deleted some old kernels and freed some space in the boot partition. Could this be the reason? not enough free boot space?

would you help the noob here and explain how to do that?

sudo dhclient eth0

you.saved.the.day

thanks!!!

Thanks for that

No luck

I used sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

nmcli returns command not found

sudo systemctl status NetworkManager.service returns: unit NetworkManager.service could not be found.

Seems I dont have that one either

Sorry, corrected it. Results didnt change