Can update cause memory overloaded?

[Derek Broughton]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:

> Hai Dao Le wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I run Ubuntu in my computer in a partition of 20GB and now there is only
>> 7GB free. I wonder if software update can cause my HDD overloaded in
>> someday since updates coming everyday and require download and install.
> 
> Not easily, since old files are rewritten by the new ones.  However,
> there are some exceptions.  For instance, old versions of the Linux
> kernel are kept.  You can remove old packages using Synaptic.

And not just the kernel images (linux-image-*).  I happened across about a
gig of old kernel headers yesterday.  I routinely purge the old images, but
it never occurred to me to remove linux-headers-*.
-- 
derek