Re: No space left when: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-5-amd64
On Wed 07 Apr 2021 at 14:02:58 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 08:40:58PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > While I'm a big fan of aptitude's patterns it's also not installed by
> > default. For basic uses 'apt' is fine as well and supports globs:
> >
> > apt list --installed linux-image-4*
> >
> > apt purge linux-image-4.9.10-?-amd64
>
> Remember that you need to quote these globs (at least the special
> characters in them), or else one day you *will* get a nasty surprise
> when one of them matches a file in your current working directory.
And I'm a big fan of -s with commands like these, so that
you know what's going to be changed. Then recall the command
and remove the -s.
I'm also a big fan of mv -i rather than rm, for similar
reasons. Remove the files only when you're sure the system
still works without them.
Cheers,
David.
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