[ubuntu-us-mn] Removing old kernels

[Fred H Olson]

Thanks Tony.

I've been doing upgrades via the Ubuntu Update Manager
I tried:
sudo apt-get autoremove
and it removed:
Removing linux-headers-3.2.0-25-generic ...
Removing linux-headers-3.2.0-25 ...

which is not the oldest (third oldest).

It did not seem to touch the other 23 old versions.

Subsequent uses of
apt-get autoremove
did not seem to remove anything

Fred

On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Tony Yarusso wrote:

> Yeah, it's the headers that kill your inodes.  You should never
> manually remove files, however.  There are packages for all of those,
> just like the kernels, eg. linux-headers-3.2.0-39 and
> linux-headers-3.2.0-39-generic (note that there are two for each
> kernel version).  Just remove those packages and you'll be fine.
>
> Assuming your kernels (and headers) are being installed via an
> upgraded metapackage, the easiest way to remove old ones is 'apt-get
> autoremove'.
>
>  - Tony
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