Re: /boot full (of old-dkms)

[Erik Josefsson <erik.hjalmar.josefsson@gmail.com>]

Den 2019-02-07 kl. 10:31, skrev john doe:
> On 2/7/2019 8:14 AM, Erik Josefsson wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I happen to have a couple of quite large old-dkms* files in my /boot
> > directory.
> >
> > Apparently they are not removed by aptitude autoclean (which I use
> > regularly).
> >
> >
> > Can I safely remove those files manually with rm?
> >
> > Or should I use another tool or command?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> > //Erik
> >
> >
> > *)
> >
> > /boot$ ls -al | grep old
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 26018518 jul 26  2018
> > initrd.img-4.16.0-1-amd64.old-dkms
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  3538944 jul 26  2018
> > initrd.img-4.16.0-2-amd64.old-dkms
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 28866434 jan 16 18:06
> > initrd.img-4.19.0-1-amd64.old-dkms
> According to (1), you should be fine removing '.old-dkms' files in '/boot'.
> However, I would do a backup of those files before removing them.
>
> 1)  https://askubuntu.com/questions/863380/can-i-remove-old-dkms-files

Thank you!

Apparently there is also a new way of rid of old kernels coming up:

kthresher - Purge Unused Kernels

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/kthresher

Best regards.

//Erik