APT automatically removes unnecessary kernels. If something depends on a
specific kernel version or you marked that kernel as manually installed
it will be kept of course. Also it will always keep 2 kernels around as
a minimum, and of course the currently booted kernel.
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2009603
Title:
apt autoremove doesn´t catch all old kernels
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
I have an install with nominally 500MB as /boot. I'm regularly running beyond
that limit at updates.
Instead of manually picking out old files and apt --purge, I found that more
recently apt autoremove would do that task. That brought me down by 11 MB only,
from 100%:
445 401 11 98%
apt update apt upgrade apt autoremove and reboot didn't improve the situation.
A tad reluctantly I installed byobu and ran one session of purge-old-kernels.
Result:
445 277 135 68%
I can live with that; though I couldn't with the result above.
Of course, I'd prefer apt autoremove to do everything in a single go. But
what it does, does not actually warrant the deprecation of purge-old-kernels.
I'm surely not the only person with a tight budget when using a separate /boot
of an old installation. Or, as in my case, a fresh install into an old,
formerly partitioned drive.
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