Updater can't update kernel due to disk space

[Chris Knutson]

I just had to purge 3 older kernel versions this morning on 14.04 to update
from 3.13.0-43 to 3.13.0-44

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14 January 2015 at 15:34, Chris Knutson
> <christopher.knutson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Clearing out old kernel versions manually to be able to upgrade the
> kernel
> > version is something the end user should never have to do. Clearing out
> old
> > kernel version from /boot should be better managed by the software
> updater
> > to intelligently manage historic kernel versions based on available disk
> > space on the partition.
>
> I believe that as from 14.04 (I think) only the current and previous
> kernels are kept, the others are deleted by autoremove.  Not sure
> whether the software updater will autoremove them.
>
> Colin
>
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