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etc/
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README.txt
Remove Unused Ubuntu Kernel
Purge unused Ubuntu kernels
Setup
I’ll wait for better days to come and create a proper release process.
Meanwhile I use Git LFS to upload the package inside the deb/ directory.
You can download the package and install it:
sudo dpkg -i ubuntu-kernel-cleanup_<VERSION>_all.deb
if the dependencies are not met:
sudo apt -y -f install
How it works
Script usage
you can run the script using --real-run to remove the packages or use
--dry-run to show which package would have been removed.
Example:
ubuntu-kernel-cleanup.py --real-run
or
ubuntu-kernel-cleanup.py --dry-run
Configuration file
The script will look for its configuration file in the following
locations:
1. /etc/ubuntu-kernel-cleanup.ini
2. $HOME/.ubuntu-kernel-cleanup.ini
if both files are available, the 2nd one will win.
The file content looks as following:
[ubuntu-kernel-cleanup]
# you can get a list package prefixes and suffixes using "apt-cache search"
# number of kernels packages to keep
count = 2
# prefix comes after the version number
kernel_prefixes = linux-tools, linux-headers, linux-modules, linux-modules-extra, linux-image, linux-image-unsigned
# suffix come before the version number
kernel_suffixes = generic, aws
How the script removes the kernels
1st case
you have 4 kernels installed and you use (count = 1):
- kernel1: it’s old, it’s the running kernel and you cannot uninstall
this one
- kernel2: old, intermediate kernel version, it can be uninstalled
- kernel3: old, intermediate kernel version, it can be uninstalled
- kernel4: the latest, it is also the running kernel and it will be
kept
the script will remove kernel2 and kernel3
2nd case
If the running kernel does not belong to the list of the latest kernels,
obtained with the option “count”, then count + 1 will be kept.
For instance, if you use count = 2 with the following kernels installed:
- kernel1: old, it can be uninstalled
- kernel2: old, intermediate, but running kernel and it will be kept
- kernel3: old, intermediate kernel version, it can be uninstalled
- kernel4: the latest, it will be kept
- kernel5: the latest, it will be kept
the script will remove kernel1 and kernel3
3rd case
You reboot and you are running the latest kernel.
If you use count = 2, 2 kernels will be kept:
- kernel1: old, it can be uninstalled
- kernel2: old, intermediate, it can be uninstalled
- kernel3: old, intermediate kernel version, it can be uninstalled
- kernel4: the latest, it will be kept
- kernel5: the latest, running kernel, it will be kept
the script will remove kernel1, kernel2 and kernel3
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