Removing old kernels that are not actually installed

[Murat D. Kadirov]

On 27.04.2012 15:06, Colin Law wrote:
> On 27 April 2012 09:52, Murat D. Kadirov <md.kadirov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 27.04.2012 13:47, Colin Law wrote:
>>> On 26 April 2012 22:32, William Scott Lockwood III <vladinator at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 4:21 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>> On 04/26/2012 02:00 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>>>> I know how to remove old kernels by finding them in synaptic an
>>>>>> uninstalling them but I have a machine that has been through numerous
>>>>>> upgrades over the years and seems to have ended up with a number of
>>>>>> kernels in /boot that are found by update-grub but according to
>>>>>> synaptic are not installed.  For example:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ~$ ls /boot/*2.6.27*
>>>>>> /boot/abi-2.6.27-11-generic         /boot/System.map-2.6.27-11-generic
>>>>>> /boot/config-2.6.27-11-generic      /boot/vmcoreinfo-2.6.27-11-generic
>>>>>> /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-11-generic  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can I just remove all these files?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Colin
>>>>>>
>>>>> Yes - as long as you are no longer using 2.6.27-*
>>>> The proper way to remove them is better of course - use apt-get or
>>>> aptitude to remove the packages that installed them.
>>>>
>>>> Hint: dpkg -l | grep linux
>>> As I can see they are not "installed".  dpkg -l | grep linux shows
>>> only 2.6.35-25 and 2.6.35-22 but in /boot I have various versions of
>>> 2.6.27, 2.6.28 and 2.6.31.  I can only guess that for some reason
>>> upgrading has not removed the files over the years.
>>>
>>> It seems likely that I can just delete them.
>>>
>>> Thanks all for the help.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>> There are also modules for them in /lib/modules
> In fact there are only modules for the installed kernels there.  So
> for some reason those were uninstalled but not the stuff in /boot.
>
> Thanks
>
> Colin
murat at mbox:/lib/modules$ uname -r
3.0.0-17-generic

murat at mbox:/lib/modules$ du -hs 2.6.38-13-generic/
105M    2.6.38-13-generic/

murat at mbox:/lib/modules$ du -hs 3.0.0-14-generic/
108M    3.0.0-14-generic/