Partition Resizing Plan

[Barry Premeaux]

>Personally I don't keep old ones around at all.

>If you are really paranoid, 1 is enough.


This is true.  Once a kernel update has proven stable, there isn't
really any need to keep the old ones around.  I just need to learn to
do a better job of cleaning up in this area.


>I have seen this command suggested as a way to get rid of all old kernels

>sudo apt-get remove --purge $(dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed
>'/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | sed "s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/")"'
>/d;s/^[^ ]*
>[^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d')

>but have never had the courage to try it.  This answer on askubuntu
>[1] suggests some other ways to clean them up.


I read through the same article, but didn't care for the possible oops
factor.  I am more comfortable with picking each kernel I want to
remove, even if it is a little more time consuming.


On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 5:43 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 December 2013 13:27, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 13 December 2013 03:19, Barry Premeaux <bpremeaux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Started removing
>>> old kernels until I was down to the current and 3 earlier ones.
>>
>>
>> Personally I don't keep old ones around at all.
>
> I have seen this command suggested as a way to get rid of all old kernels
>
> sudo apt-get remove --purge $(dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed
> '/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | sed "s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/")"'/d;s/^[^ ]*
> [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d')
>
> but have never had the courage to try it.  This answer on askubuntu
> [1] suggests some other ways to clean them up.
>
> Colin
>
> [1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/2793/how-do-i-remove-or-hide-old-kernel-versions-to-clean-up-the-boot-menu
>
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