Comments on: Removing old kernels from Ubuntu

By: Tyler Wagner

Tyler Wagner — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:00:50 +0000

Sorry, you’ll have to build your own enormous one-liner for that. :)

By: Dragonslayr

Dragonslayr — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 05:25:58 +0000

Would you mind much to let me know what to add to leave the last three kernels? Removing kernels makes me nervous. :)

I did put this at the end to tell me what was now installed..
dpkg –get-selections | grep linux-image ;\

By: cesareriva.com » Removing previous kernels from Xubuntu

cesareriva.com » Removing previous kernels from Xubuntu — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:54:32 +0000

[...] found an useful script to remove the old kernels from Ubuntu/Xubuntu here , then I just have added a pop up menu to confirm the clean up before proceeding using Zenity. [...]

By: The Open Sourcerer

The Open Sourcerer — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:19:01 +0000

Thanks for the ping about the update.

I hadn’t been affected by it [yet] ;-)

By: Tyler Wagner

Tyler Wagner — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:22:02 +0000

Al,

Please note that my code was flawed. Please see the update.

By: The Open Sourcerer

The Open Sourcerer — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:05:47 +0000

Thanks very much for this.

It’s something that had bugged me for ages and since I saw your post I have used it loads of times to rescue systems that had:

* No inodes left because of loads of header dirs in /usr/src
* No space in /boot because of loads of old vmlinuz images

It’s a real help.

Thanks again.