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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/09/2019 09:50, Colin Law via
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 09:44, bill via Swlug <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk"><swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk></a> wrote:
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Hi all,
My laptop, which runs on Linux Mint Mate 19.1, is telling me that my
Boot directory is very low on space now. I have only 6.5 Mb or so left.
I am advised in the message that I can move some of the files to another
directory. That's very easy to say, but which files can I move without
causing the whole setup to stop functioning, and where should I move
them to so that the laptop still works? Can anybody help please? I'm a
happy user of Linux but a newbie regarding the technical side of things
- please speak to me in words I can understand!!
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If you have not been removing old kernels when upgrading then they may
be filling up /boot.
In a terminal run
ls -l /boot
to see what is there, then
sudo apt-get autoremove
which should remove any old ones.
Colin
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Many thanks :)
Bill
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<p>Hi Bill,</p>
<p>Now the extra kernel issue is resolved, what you can do regularly
in Mint is as follows; <i>after</i> installing a new kernel and
rebooting:</p>
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<li>Run Update Manager</li>
<li>Click View -> Linux Kernels ; click Continue at the warning
message</li>
<li>Click on the different major versions on the left hand side -
scroll if necessary<br>
</li>
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<p>You will see one Active and one or more Installed. I remove all
but the last Installed kernel, so I have the current one running
and the last.</p>
<p>Also a handy utility is BleachBit to remove extraneous files -
which I do prior to a backup. I usually take out localisation
files such as all the extra languages I will never use.</p>
<p>That keeps disk space down to a minimum.
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<p>Kind regards,</p>
<p>Julian<br>
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