Adding a kernel removal script to linux-base or elsewhere
Jarno Suni
j_suni at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Oct 15 12:25:56 UTC 2016
> On Saturday, October 15, 2016 3:06 PM, Jarno Suni <j_suni at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Friday, October 14, 2016 2:11 AM, J Fernyhough <j.fernyhough at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>> Doesn't `apt-get autoremove` remove old kernel versions already? (IIRC
> it keeps three? old versions)
>
>
> It depends on script
> /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal and when it is run last time, which
> automatically
> installed kernels it does NOT remove. `apt-get autoremove` removes other
> packages that are automatically installed and that no package depends on, too,
> which may or may not be wanted. It may be unable to remove old kernels in some
> cases when /boot or system is full.
System may be so clogged that even dpkg is unable to remove packages, but my script can.
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