Ubuntu
unattended-upgrades package

  1. Bug #1357093
  2. Comment #131

Comment 131 for bug 1357093

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Balint Reczey (rbalint) wrote : Re: [Bug 1357093] Re: Kernels not autoremoving, causing out of space error on LVM or Encrypted installation or on any installation, when /boot partition gets full

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 5:48 PM, luca moscato <email address hidden> wrote:
> Sorry guys to bother you, I'm the reporter of
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1744045

Thank you for reporting bugs!

>
> Having this bug fixed exactly what does it means on Ubuntu 16.04 and on the upcoming 18.04?

Unattended-upgrades and update-manager will remove old unused kernels
with the default configuration.
This is already happening in 18.04 and will be back-ported to 16.04.

> With a clean installation (on an encrypted disk) the boot partition will be removed automatically? Or do I have to upgrade manually /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades
> uncommenting this parameter?
> //Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies "true";

No, the /boot partition will be kept, but unused old kernel files will
be cleaned up. Without changing the configuration files from the
shipped default values.

> I'm asking since some of my colleagues doesn't use command line (so they
> don't use autoremove) and they rely on Software update Application.

I hope they will be pleased to see that obsolete kernels are removed
without starting terminals. :-)