clean out old kernel versions?

[Colin Law]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2021, 05:55 Dave Stevens, <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:

> Linux user-Satellite-A100 4.4.0-21-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 18
> 18:34:49 UTC 2016 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> cat /etc/issue
> Linux Mint 18 Sarah \n \l
>
> --------------
>
>
> /boot has 440 files in it, almost all of which are old kernel entries.
> Is there a simple way to get rid of all but the most recent few (2 or
> 3)?
>


Start with
sudo apt autoremove

Though that won't get rid of ones not removed before a mint version upgrade.

Colin





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