Partition Resizing Plan

[Barry Premeaux]

>Now, enter the search term of the base version number, complete with
>hyphen... e.g. `3.11.0-`

>Sort the results by the "installed" column by clicking on the column header.

>You will see that each kernel comes in 3 bits: kernel itself, initrd
>and headers.

>Now, carefully *don't* select the latest one, but select all 3 bits of
>the previous version that's installed, then the one before that, then
>any before that... Right-click the selection, pick "completely
>remove", and then click Apply.

Thank you for this information.  Synaptic is installed.  I was
struggling with a search filter that would give me the information I
wanted.  I'll work through this tonight and see just how much free
space I can regain.

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 December 2013 11:51, Barry Premeaux <bpremeaux at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Sadly, mostly, no it won't. It occasionally seems to decide to take
> out a /really/ old one.
>
> There are 2 ways. One is easier & uses the GUI.
>
> The GUI way:
>
> Find out the base version of your kernel -
>
> uname -a
>
> E.g. 3.11.0 for Saucy. This is followed by a hyphen and the build
> number, e.g. `3.11.0-19`
>
> Next, install Synaptic if you don't have it:
>
> sudo apt-get install synaptic -y
>
> Then run it:
>
> gksu synaptic &
>
> Now, enter the search term of the base version number, complete with
> hyphen... e.g. `3.11.0-`
>
> Sort the results by the "installed" column by clicking on the column header.
>
> You will see that each kernel comes in 3 bits: kernel itself, initrd
> and headers.
>
> Now, carefully *don't* select the latest one, but select all 3 bits of
> the previous version that's installed, then the one before that, then
> any before that... Right-click the selection, pick "completely
> remove", and then click Apply.
>
> This can free as much as a gig or 2 of disk space.
>
> The harder, command-line way is to identify what's current the same
> way, with uname, then look what else is installed  with
>
> ls -la /boot
>
> ... and then use
>
> sudo apt-get remove linux-image-
>
> At that point, press Tab to autocomplete with the kernel version, then
> fill in the specific one you want to remove.
>
> Then do it again but with
>
> sudo apt-get remove linu-headers-
>
> and again Tab to autocomplete and manually insert the full version and
> build number.
>
> You have to do both these commands for every old kernel you want to
> get rid of. There may be half a dozen or more so it can take a while.
>
> Be very very careful NOT to remove the one you are currently running
> or your system will not boot.
>
> I have also described the process here:
> http://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/20347.html
>
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