[PLUG] laptop error msg out of space for /boot

[Erik Lane]

At least on my laptop, that doesn't seem to have any effect. I'm running
Mint, but since it's based on Ubuntu, I assume it's relevant.

I probably have 8 or so kernels on mine, according to what I see in /boot.
I see that there are manual ways to get rid of them, but I don't know that
I'll bother. My /boot is on the same partition as the majority of my
system, and since I'm only using ~20% of the disk, I'm not in any danger of
running out of space. (For years at the rate I go.)

It would be nice if apt would take care of them, but it's not enough of an
annoyance (for me) to try to force anything and have any risk of borking
the system. I guess I might ask synaptic to deal with the specific
packages, so it can try to save me from doing anything overly stupid...

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Richard England <rlengland at frontier.com>
wrote:

> On 11/18/2016 05:54 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Russell Senior <
> russell at personaltelco.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>>>>>> "Denis" == Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com> writes:
> >> Denis> This is a recent install, so I expect that there may not be many
> >> Denis> kernels.  How do I see what older kernels I have?
> >>
> >> I use aptitude for package management.  Look for packages named
> >> linux-image-* and the associated linux-image-extra-*.  You want to purge
> >> them, I think.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Russell Senior, President
> >> russell at personaltelco.net
> >
> > I looked using synaptic.  I see 4.4.0-42.62 both in generic and extra.
> > There are 7 earlier, all listed as installed.  But I also see
> 4.4.0-47.68,
> > yet uname shows 42.68.  Is it possible that the install of 47.68 stalled
> > when I got that memory error?  But regardless, it seems I have some older
> > stuff to get rid of.
> >
> > But you said "..., I think."  That makes me reluctant.  Someone as
> > incompetent as I am needs certainty to minimize the chance of
> catastrophe.
> >
> > -Denis
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> I'm not adept at Ubuntu but if you are installing updates with apt-get
> can't you use
>
> sudo apt autoremove --purge
>
> to remove the old kernels as well as other unused packages?
>
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