clean out old kernel versions?

[Dave Stevens]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 07:11:30 +0000
Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

sudo apt autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
user at user-Satellite-A100 /boot $ 


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> > I could find a use for that 4.4 GB of disk space.
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-- 
In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the
usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. My books are
not conceived in terms of such a war, and offer no simple answers to
simplistic questions.

----- Ursula Le Guin