clean out old kernel versions?

[Dave Stevens]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 15:17:40 +0800
Ming <ming at pgp.cool> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 09:52:58PM -0800, Dave Stevens wrote:
> > /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)?
> > 
> > I could find a use for that 4.4 GB of disk space.  
> 
> First run the command: apt autoremove.
> 
> Then check what the following command returns:
> dpkg --list | grep linux-image
> 
> If there are some kernel packages marked with rc, you can use apt
> purge to delete them completely (rc means that the package is
> uninstalled but the configuration file is retained).
> 
user at user-Satellite-A100 /boot $ dpkg --list | grep linux-image | wc
    147    2262   26475
user at user-Satellite-A100 /boot $ 

don't see any rcs

want to see them?

d





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