[ubuntu-studio-users] Upgrading

[Thomas Orgis]

Am Mon, 21 Oct 2013 05:11:10 -0300
schrieb Gord L Williams <info at gordlwilliams.com>: 

> I successfully upgraded from 13.04 to 13.10 via update.  It took me a couple of tries though
> as update told me I had to have so much space on my /boot partition.

I had to revive a laptop that got the package management stuck because
of that (update process aborted, package management state in need of
manual rescue). I cannot believe that ubuntu has no simple option to
clean up old kernels. I had to dig out some shell scripting with apt /
dpkg. Even without a /boot of limited size (because of full-disk
encryption, for example), this is a serious omission which bloats
installations over time. I'm all for not removing old kernels without
user's consent, but I'd expect ubuntu to give the average user (the
ones who this distro is designed for) a way to clean that up.

This is not ubuntu-studio specific, but since it came up, I had to vent
a bit. Old kernels and their modules occupy quite some space. Mind, I'm
not necessarily talking about upgrades to new distro release. Each
little kernel update litters the hard disk. Did ubuntu folks really
miss that?


Alrighty then,

Thomas
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