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
Old kernels are the most often reason why /boot has low amount of space.
Since 19.2 Linux Mint has a GUI to remove old kernels manually and to set up automatic maintenance.
In the Update Manager (mintupdate) select "View" -> "Linux Kernels" to open kernel management window. Press "Remove kernels" button, select unneeded kernels and press "Apply".
I advise leaving at least one old kernel just in case.
In the Update Manager (mintupdate) select "Edit" -> "Preferences", switch to "Automation" tab. Enable "Automatic maintenance".
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
uname -r result
I don't know why this isn't an answer, but if you just run autoremove, it will get rid of the old kernals and that will probably fix your boot partition.
sudo apt autoremove
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