More space needed on the /boot filesystem. RHEL / Fedora / Alma / Rocky

Error Summary
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Disk Requirements:
   At least 28MB more space needed on the /boot filesystem.

The above error is due to the /boot partition being out of space. We can fix this issue by removing older unused Linux kernels. You could also increase the disk space, but that is a little more involved.

First we need to list which kernels we have installed.

rpm -qa | grep kernel

Example output

[incredigeek@apache ~]$ rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-core-4.18.0-522.el8.x86_64
kernel-tools-4.18.0-529.el8.x86_64
kernel-modules-4.18.0-526.el8.x86_64
kernel-4.18.0-526.el8.x86_64
kernel-modules-4.18.0-529.el8.x86_64
kernel-4.18.0-522.el8.x86_64
kernel-4.18.0-529.el8.x86_64
kernel-core-4.18.0-529.el8.x86_64
kernel-devel-4.18.0-522.el8.x86_64
kernel-core-4.18.0-526.el8.x86_64
kernel-devel-4.18.0-529.el8.x86_64
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-529.el8.x86_64
kernel-devel-4.18.0-526.el8.x86_64
kernel-headers-4.18.0-529.el8.x86_64
kernel-modules-4.18.0-522.el8.x86_64

The kernel in bold is the one we will remove.

Next we remove erase the old kernel(s)/items.

sudo rpm -e kernel-4.18.0-522.el8.x86_64 kernel-core-4.18.0-522.el8.x86_64 kernel-devel-4.18.0-522.el8.x86_64 kernel-modules-4.18.0-522.el8.x86_64

And now we continue with our update

sudo dnf update

Helpful links.

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/installing-kernel-2-6-32-131-2-1-el6-x86_64-needs-8mb-on-boot-filesystem/

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