apparently my problem is I cannot update initramfs:
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.12.41+deb13-amd64 zstd: error 70 : Write error : cannot write block : No space left on device
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
dpkg -l | grep linux-image | awk '{print$2}'
shows:
linux-image-6.1.0-37-amd64
linux-image-6.1.0-38-amd64
linux-image-6.12.41+deb13-amd64
linux-image-amd64
I am now using debian 13 on linux-image-6.1.0-38-amd64 because linux-image-6.12.41+deb13-amd64 won’t load from grub2. I don’t want to get rid of linux-image-6.1.0-37-amd64 till I solve this issue
Use Gparted boot disk. It’s a nice GUI program. It can resize partitions on the fly with data on them. It will move data within a partition if needed. I have successfully used it on XFS and BTRFS, YMMV. The usual advice of backup anything important is valid.
Although it’s a bit dated, so I don’t think it supports luks in the GUI. You might have to use it as a visual reference and do it via the command line.
is gparted better than KDE partition manager? or gnome’s?
Haven’t used those but probably pretty similar.