Something's filling up my disk, but I don't know what it is.
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I use Mint and the kernel regularly updates. I delete obsolete versions of Vmlinuz etc from /boot manually, as well as cleaning out /var/chache/apt/archives rm *.deb but I was unaware that Lib Modules was so big. I tried a few suggestions from some of the posts in this thread, what worked for me was running / # du | sort -rn > /tmp/greedy.txt I just freed up over 4 gig by deleting old versions. Thanks everyone for your help.
I delete obsolete versions of Vmlinuz etc from /boot manually,
Are you sure this is the correct method?
I don't know about Debian based systems, but on yum/rpm based ones, you would use yum to remove old kernels, inc dependencies, rather that just random stuff manually.
Does Debian pkg mgr not do that ??
Are you sure this is the correct method?
I don't know about Debian based systems, but on yum/rpm based ones, you would use yum to remove old kernels, inc dependencies, rather that just random stuff manually.
Does Debian pkg mgr not do that ??
I raised this in Linux Mint forums Another user commented that with all the minor kernel updates he thought there should be something in update manager. So the point has been raised, thanks again.
which automatically limits installed kernels to last ie newest 3.
It auto purges oldest when you install a '4th', so you never actually need to run yum manually to reduce kernels
which automatically limits installed kernels to last ie newest 3.
It auto purges oldest when you install a '4th', so you never actually need to run yum manually to reduce kernels
Hi Thanks,
Mint does not use YUM, in looking in /etc I did find a generated file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove-kernels which is created by
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal
There was mention on #lines about keeping 4 kernels, but this hasn't been my experience, My linux progaming skills extend to simple scripts, however I will pass this over to Mint Forums. Thanks indeed, the answer is there somewhere.
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