Deleting old /boot files

[Derek Broughton]

Alex Janssen wrote:

> Does anyone know why I should not delete all but the two most recent
> copies of the boot files in /boot, i.e.; abi-, config-, initrd.img-,
> system.map-,vmlinuz-?
> 
> The directory list from my /boot:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root  239770 2005-10-10 09:16 abi-2.6.12-9-386
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root  266619 2006-05-23 12:56 abi-2.6.15-23-386
...

No reason at all, but it's a lot easier (and cleaner) to use apt (apt-get,
aptitude, synaptic, etc) to do it than to just delete the files in /boot.

# sudo aptitude purge linux-image-2.6.12-9-386

...etc, should do it.
-- 
derek