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| From | Erik Josefsson <erik.hjalmar.josefsson@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: /boot full (of old-dkms) |
| Date | 2019-02-08 00:30 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <xp1hf-7CJ-13@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <xoM8y-6NA-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <xoOk1-83z-11@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
Den 2019-02-07 kl. 10:31, skrev john doe: > On 2/7/2019 8:14 AM, Erik Josefsson wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I happen to have a couple of quite large old-dkms* files in my /boot >> directory. >> >> Apparently they are not removed by aptitude autoclean (which I use >> regularly). >> >> >> Can I safely remove those files manually with rm? >> >> Or should I use another tool or command? >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> //Erik >> >> >> *) >> >> /boot$ ls -al | grep old >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26018518 jul 26 2018 >> initrd.img-4.16.0-1-amd64.old-dkms >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3538944 jul 26 2018 >> initrd.img-4.16.0-2-amd64.old-dkms >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28866434 jan 16 18:06 >> initrd.img-4.19.0-1-amd64.old-dkms >> > According to (1), you should be fine removing '.old-dkms' files in '/boot'. > However, I would do a backup of those files before removing them. > > 1) https://askubuntu.com/questions/863380/can-i-remove-old-dkms-files Thank you! Apparently there is also a new way of rid of old kernels coming up: kthresher - Purge Unused Kernels https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/kthresher Best regards. //Erik
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/boot full (of old-dkms) Erik Josefsson <erik.hjalmar.josefsson@gmail.com> - 2019-02-07 08:20 +0100
Re: /boot full (of old-dkms) john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-02-07 10:40 +0100
Re: /boot full (of old-dkms) Erik Josefsson <erik.hjalmar.josefsson@gmail.com> - 2019-02-08 00:30 +0100
Re: /boot full (of old-dkms) Erik Josefsson <erik.hjalmar.josefsson@gmail.com> - 2019-02-10 10:40 +0100
Re: /boot full (of old-dkms) Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-02-10 11:40 +0100
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