[Bug 994660] Re: Offer purging of old kernels

[Vladimir Rutsky]

Few months ago I installed Ubuntu 13.10 and selected "automatic"
partition of hard drive. To my delight Ubuntu installer choosed *only
256 MB* for /boot partition.

Today during regular update /boot run out of space and update failed,
and this is only few months of working with Ubuntu with "default"
installation!

IMO this is serious defect.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to update-manager in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/994660

Title:
  Offer purging of old kernels

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Please consider an option to purge old kernels. This feature should
  take into account only kernels except the latest and one but latest.
  Also a check could be made that successful boots have been made with
  the latest and one but latest kernel since booting from these old
  kernels.

  Especially on systems with limited space and inexperienced users this
  will prevent cumulation of installed kernels that never get purged
  from the system and waisting resources in terms of disk space.

  Optionally this feature could also be made available in software-
  center and computer-janitor.

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/994660/+subscriptions