Adding a kernel removal script to linux-base or elsewhere

Jarno Suni j_suni at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Oct 15 14:06:02 UTC 2016


> On Saturday, October 15, 2016 4:37 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:

> > Jarno, please reply to the list only,

ok

> I only wanted to point out that already with minimal knowledge about
> writing shell scripts, it is possible to write a script, that fits to
> individual user needs. If a novice only wants to clean /boot, there are
> tons of scripts available, it requires not much time to get the links,
> when using a much used search engine. DKMS hooks could be tricky,
> they need to run before the kernel gets removed, or the DKMS dir and
> lib/modules need to be cleaned by rm, after the kernel was removed.
> 
> Just to mention one link out of trillions:
> 
> http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2016/05/remove-old-kernels-ubuntu-16-04/


It is kind of sad that you point us to a blog post with commercials. The substance of that blog post is copied from the Ubuntu Community documentation page mainly I have written:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/RemoveOldKernels
No credits nor reference mentioned, of course.




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