Removing Old Kernels

[Jatin Davey]

Emil Payne wrote:
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
>   
>> I'm not an fan of UM so don't know about it but I think it's safe to say that all package managers will leave what is installed until you remove/purge the package including linux-images.  Someone will correct me if I'm wrong to be sure.
>> Leonard Chatagnier
>> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
>>
>>
>>     
>
> What would be nice is a grub entry for the number of kernels to keep.
> So if you said "3" and had only two, it would leave those and add a
> third, but if you had three then it would delete the oldest and add the
> new one.
>
> Emil
>   
There was a feature in ubuntu some time in the earlier releases where in 
there used to be only a specific copies of kernels maintained. The older 
one's would get deleted once the updates were applied. Not sure if its 
there in the current versions of ubuntu 9.10

Thanks
Jatin