/boot Keeps Filling Up On Kernel Update

This is an issue I encountered in one of my friend's ubuntu 16.04 box. He tried to do kernel update, but the /boot keeps filling up with old initramfs image files, making the update process failed. Then I found a post here, that says that if /var/lib/initramfs-tools is not being cleaned up from old kernel files, /boot will keep on being filled up with old initramfs images. So to clean it up:

# uname -r 

4.15.0-46-generic

# cd /var/lib/initramfs-tools

# rm `ls | grep -v 4.15.0-46`

Once cleaned up, update your current initramfs, using:

# update-initramfs -u -k all

where -u is to generate initramfs for current kernel, and '-k all' to generate initramfs for kernel version newer than current kernel.

Once that done, you can safely reboot your machine. It will be rebooted using the latest kernel.