I always just assumed there was an old kernel clean-up because I set the grub menu to only display 2 or 4 I didn't realize it kept ALL of them until I cleaned out all but the last four. To me, it seems like not cleaning those up is somewhat of a waste (both in processing power when rebuilding, and in memory) not to mention a ticking time bomb that will eventually force everyone to resize their boot partitions(somewhat dangerous/impossible for some).
-Ryan On 8/23/07, Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >315MB in addition to the 228 that is on there adds up to a rather large > boot partition. > > I think what's using up so much space is that it rebuilds all > initrd.imgs it can find and backups the old ones and then adds > additional entries to your boot menu. I haven't looked at the code, it's > just what I've surmised. When you delete some of the old kernel cruft > (including the grub-entries) the additional space requirements should > come down as well. > > So one of the questions that remain is: Should there be an automatic > clean up of old kernels? People would loose the possibility to go back > to old ones but wouldn't run into that many problems with full boot > partitions. > > -- > [MASTER] /boot free space check message misleading and space requirement too > big > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104337 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- [MASTER] /boot free space check message misleading and space requirement too big https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104337 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
