On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 January 2015 at 14:37, Dustin Kirkland <kirkl...@canonical.com> > wrote: > > ... > > I have Ubuntu Server instances in the Cloud, with very tiny root disks, > one > > of which has run for several years, autoupdating, and accumulated 37(!!) > > kernels, which filled up its 8GB root partition. > > > > Around that time a few years ago, I wrote the "purge-old-kernels" command > > (http://manpg.es/purge-old-kernels), which does a very effective job of > > saving your current kernel, and one other known working kernel, while > > deleting the rest. I was working on getting that into the distro (and > out > > of the bikeshed package), but Adam Conrad told me that apt would fix > this, > > itself. I've CC'd Adam. Can you advise us, Adam? > > As from 14.04 apt-get autoremove should remove old kernels except for > current and most recent. > apt-get autoremove is an "arcane command-line tool". I thought by this part of the discussion it had became clear that it is not a sensible solution (except maybe if auto-scheduled). -- Cláudio "Patola" Sampaio IRC: ptl - Yahoo: patolaaa Campinas, SP - Brazil.
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