How to clean the /boot directory on LINUX Mint?
After yesterday's update of Linux Mint Mate (64bit), I started to receive a warning about "Full disk space". I have 400 MB for the /boot
partition on my hard disk.
This is the screen-shot of the /boot
files.
This is the screen-shot of the update-log.
The question is: How can I clean the /boot
? What files are safe to delete?
I received this response from StackOverflow before they flag my question...
Check the current kernel version with uname -r and make sur that the current kernel work without any problem to keep it.
From the terminal:
List the installed kernel :
dpkg --list | grep linux-image
dpkg --list | grep linux-headers
Remove the old kernels through the following command:
apt-get purge linux-image-x...
apt-get purge linux-headers-x...
using the synaptic package manager
Open Synaptic and mark the old kernel versions for removal then apply changes
Update Manager
from the Update Manager view the Linux kernels , click the 'Remove' button for the kernels that you want to remove
Purge-old-kernels
You can install the purge-old-kernels cli tool through:
sudo apt-get install bikeshed
If you want to purge the old kernel except for the latest 2 kernels, run the following command:
sudo purge-old-kernels --keep 2
Finally run
sudo update-grub
sudo update-grub2
Get the current of list of installed kernel packages:
dpkg -l linux-* | awk '/^ii/{ print $2 }' | grep -e [0-9]
View current kernel version:
uname -r
Take away the old versions of packages that are older than the current kernel by specifying them separated by a space in command:
sudo apt-get purge