Partition Resizing Plan

Barry Premeaux bpremeaux at gmail.com
Thu Dec 12 11:51:41 UTC 2013


>Take a look in /boot -- it's possible you still have a lot of old
>kernels present, which take up quite a bit of space (especially in
>lib/modules).  Remove all but the last two, and your disk space
>troubles might be over.


I tried apt-get autoremove, but it didn't touch the kernels.  I have
been doing several upgrades vs fresh installs.  I'll check it out.
Thank you for the reminder.

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 08:40:25AM -0800, Barry Premeaux wrote:
>> I usually set / at 15 GB, Swap at 2 GB and leave the rest for /home and/or
>> additional OS's.  Right now, I am running ubuntu 13.04 and I am seeing the
>> used space on / at 82%.
>
> Take a look in /boot -- it's possible you still have a lot of old
> kernels present, which take up quite a bit of space (especially in
> /lib/modules).  Remove all but the last two, and your disk space
> troubles might be over.
>
> Marius Gedminas
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