[sf-lug] NEED INFO ABOUT BOOT SECTOR, SPACE LIMITS

[Michael Paoli]

It's generally useful to provide the exact diagnostic,
and the action that triggers it.
I bet your error diagnostic string isn't precisely:
"no more space at all in my boot sector"
And boot sector, and boot filesystem are quite different
things.  I doubt your "boot sector" is full, as boot sector
is of fixed size - there's nothing to "expand" or make bigger
there.
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#beprecise

I did find, long ago, LILO (of all places) has excellent
documentation on partitioning and boot sector, etc. - at
least for your classic pcdos partitioning (doesn't cover UEFI).

> From: Mikki <mikkimc at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [sf-lug] NEED INFO ABOUT BOOT SECTOR, SPACE LIMITS
> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 18:26:59 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

> Hello, Lug;
>
> I am getting a message that there is no more space at all in my boot sector.
>
> My computer is an Asus eee 1000 i386, etc.  I am running Ubuntu 16.04.02.
>
> I had a Ransom Demand attack about a month ago. and since then the  
> machine has become PROGRESSIVELY noticeably slower.  My current plan  
> is, having backed up as fully as I can to a separate backup  
> usb-hard-disk, to reinstall the distro.
>
> Suggestions welcome.
>
> Mikki McGee,
>     (enthusiastic Linux deadhead.)
>
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