/boot fills up over and over and over

[Philip Meidell]

Recently whenever I perform a software update the /boot directory gets filled with dozens of old, worn-out kernel builds. I'm getting sick of having to remove them just to see them rebuilt each time a software update is attempted and ultimately fails due to a full partition. The /boot directory is of reasonable size. Here's df after my most recent purge:

/dev/sda1 482922 113456 344532 25% /boot

pmeidell@eclipse:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release: 16.04
pmeidell@eclipse:~$

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

With which software are you performing upgrades? Are you using update-manager or something else?

How did you go about removing the extra kernels? Did you try 'sudo apt autoremove' and did that work or not?

[Philip Meidell (pmeidell)]

Hi Brian,

Sorry for the delay. Your message got buried in the maelstrom of emails.

I'm using the Software Updater that gets called from the System Settings
GUI. I get there by clicking the cogwheel in the upper right corner,
select About this computer, and hitting the Install Updates button in
the lower right corner of the Details pop-up.  I was unaware of the
'sudo apt autoremove' option until I saw your email. I just ran it, and
it cleaned up a bunch of files, although a couple of errors were
reported along the way, but now the boot directory looks healthy again.

Thanks for the tip!

Kind regards,

Philip Meidell

On 09/25/2017 12:23 PM, Brian Murray wrote:
> With which software are you performing upgrades? Are you using update-
> manager or something else?
>
> How did you go about removing the extra kernels? Did you try 'sudo apt
> autoremove' and did that work or not?
>
> ** Tags added: xenial
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> ** Tags added: full-boot
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