Re: May I delete their?
On Sat, Feb 04, 2023 at 10:08:06AM +0000, sim sim wrote:
> Good day!
> During the last update through the 'Sinaptic' I saw that was download 'linux-image-5.10.0-21-686-pae' and updated 'linux-image-686-pae' was updated.
> In my /boot/ among any other are archived files from 'initrd.img-5.10.0-9-686-pae' up to 'initrd.img-5.10.0-21-686-pae', each 53.3MiB. Their total weight of 53*13 is huge.
> May I delete their?
> Thanks all.
The reasoning behind keeping older kernel versions around to have a safe
fallback. That's why there is always one older version left on the system.
So if your system boots without any troubles a
apt autoremove
will clear out most of the old kernels, and it's safe to do that.
-H
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Henning Follmann | hfollmann@itcfollmann.com
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