Comment 21 for bug 104337

I always just assumed there was an old kernel clean-up because I set
the grub menu to only display 2 or 4 I didn't realize it kept ALL of
them until I cleaned out all but the last four. To me, it seems like
not cleaning those up is somewhat of a waste (both in processing power
when rebuilding, and in memory) not to mention a ticking time bomb
that will eventually force everyone to resize their boot
partitions(somewhat dangerous/impossible for some).

-Ryan

On 8/23/07, Arthur <email address hidden> wrote:
> >315MB in addition to the 228 that is on there adds up to a rather large
> boot partition.
>
> I think what's using up so much space is that it rebuilds all
> initrd.imgs it can find and backups the old ones and then adds
> additional entries to your boot menu. I haven't looked at the code, it's
> just what I've surmised. When you delete some of the old kernel cruft
> (including the grub-entries) the additional space requirements should
> come down as well.
>
> So one of the questions that remain is: Should there be an automatic
> clean up of old kernels? People would loose the possibility to go back
> to old ones but wouldn't run into that many problems with full boot
> partitions.
>
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> [MASTER] /boot free space check message misleading and space requirement too big
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104337
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