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Can't upgrade due to low disk space on /boot
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May 10, 2017
Edited: July 28, 2017
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Compared to other GUI answers here, the advantage of this answer is native Ubuntu Bash is used without installing third-party applications.
Zenity and Bash based solution
Zenity provides a nice GUI interface to the terminal to process a list and select items with radio-buttons:
The current kernel you booted with cannot be removed and isnβt included in the list. The size reported is how much will be saved in /boot
directory. More is saved on your disk because kernel binaries reside in other areas too. July 27, 2017 note: The directories /usr/src/*kernel_version*
and /lib/modules/*kernel_version*
are now included as well.
The Modified Date is discovered using the stat
command. On my system that date is βtouchedβ every time the kernel is booted using this (How do you find out when a specific kernel version was last booted?) cron reboot script. However, on your system the date will be the kernel release date, not the last time you booted it.
apt-get purge
gives you chance to abort
You are given a final opportunity to view everything that will be purged and see the total disk space (somewhat misleading) that will be recovered:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
linux-headers-4.7.1-040701* linux-headers-4.7.1-040701-generic*
linux-headers-4.7.2-040702* linux-headers-4.7.2-040702-generic*
linux-headers-4.7.3-040703* linux-headers-4.7.3-040703-generic*
linux-headers-4.8.1-040801* linux-headers-4.8.1-040801-generic*
linux-headers-4.8.10-040810* linux-headers-4.8.10-040810-generic*
linux-headers-4.8.11-040811* linux-headers-4.8.11-040811-generic*
linux-headers-4.8.4-040804* linux-headers-4.8.4-040804-generic*
linux-headers-4.8.5-040805* linux-headers-4.8.5-040805-generic*
linux-image-4.7.1-040701-generic* linux-image-4.7.2-040702-generic*
linux-image-4.7.3-040703-generic* linux-image-4.8.1-040801-generic*
linux-image-4.8.10-040810-generic* linux-image-4.8.11-040811-generic*
linux-image-4.8.4-040804-generic* linux-image-4.8.5-040805-generic*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 24 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
After this operation, 2,330 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
The Code
Copy this code to an executable file named rm-kernels
in /usr/local/bin
:
#!/bin/bash
# NAME: rm-kernels
# PATH: /usr/local/bin
# DESC: Provide zenity item list of kernels to remove
# DATE: Mar 10, 2017. Modified Jul 28, 2017.
# NOTE: Will not delete current kernel.
# With 10 kernels on an SSD, empty cache from sudo prompt (#) using:
# # free && sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && free
# First time for `du` 34 seconds.
# Second time for `du` 1 second.
# PARM: If any parm 1 passed use REAL kernel size, else use estimated size.
# By default `du` is not used and estimated size is displayed.
# Must be running as sudo
if [[ $(id -u) != 0 ]]; then
zenity --error --text "root access required. Use: sudo rm-kernels"
exit 99
fi
OLDIFS="$IFS"
IFS="|"
choices=()
current_version=$(uname -r)
for f in /boot/vmlinuz*
do
if [[ $f == *"$current_version"* ]]; then continue; fi # skip current version
[[ $f =~ vmlinuz-(.*) ]]
v=${BASH_REMATCH[1]} # example: 4.9.21-040921-generic
v_main="${v%-*}" # example: 4.9.21-040921
# Kernel size in /boot/*4.9.21-040921-generic*
s=$(du -ch /boot/*-$v* | awk '/total/{print $1}')
if [[ $# -ne 0 ]] ; then # Was a parameter passed?
if [[ -d "/usr/src/linux-headers-"$v_main ]] ; then
# Kernel headers size in /usr/src/*4.9.21-040921*
s2=$(du -ch --max-depth=1 /usr/src/*-$v_main* | awk '/total/{print $1}')
else
s2="0M" # Linux Headers are not installed
fi
# Kernel image size in /lib/modules/4.9.21-040921-generic*
s3=$(du -ch --max-depth=1 /lib/modules/$v* | awk '/total/{print $1}')
else
# Estimate sizof of optional headers at 125MB and size of image at 220MB
if [[ -d "/usr/src/linux-headers-"$v_main ]] ; then
s2="125M"
else
s2="0M" # Linux Headers are not installed
fi
s3="220M"
fi
# Strip out "M" provided by human readable option of du and add 3 sizes together
s=$(( ${s//[^0-9]*} + ${s2//[^0-9]*} + ${s3//[^0-9]*} ))
t=$(( t + s ))
s=$s" MB"
d=$(date --date $(stat -c %y $f) '+%b %d %Y') # Last modified date for display
choices=("${choices[@]}" false "$v" "$d" "$s")
done
# adjust width & height below for your screen 640x480 default for 1920x1080 HD screen
# also adjust font="14" below if blue text is too small or too large
choices=(`zenity \
--title "rm-kernels - Total: $t MB excluding: $current_version" \
--list \
--separator="$IFS" \
--checklist --multiple \
--text '<span foreground="blue" font="14">Check box next to kernel(s) to remove</span>' \
--width=640 \
--height=480 \
--column "Select" \
--column "Kernel Version Number" \
--column "Modified Date" \
--column " Size " \
"${choices[@]}"`)
IFS="$OLDIFS"
i=0
list=""
for choice in "${choices[@]}" ; do
if [ "$i" -gt 0 ]; then list="$list- "; fi # append "-" from last loop
((i++))
short_choice=$(echo $choice | cut -f1-2 -d"-")
header_count=$(find /usr/src/linux-headers-$short_choice* -maxdepth 0 -type d | wc -l)
# If -lowlatency and -generic are purged at same time the _all header directory
# remains on disk for specific version with no -generic or -lowlatency below.
if [[ $header_count -lt 3 ]]; then
# Remove all w.x.y-zzz headers
list="$list""linux-image-$choice- linux-headers-$short_choice"
else
# Remove w.x.y-zzz-flavour header only, ie -generic or -lowlatency
list="$list""linux-image-$choice- linux-headers-$choice"
fi
done
if [ "$i" -gt 0 ] ; then
apt-get purge $list
fi
NOTE: You need sudo permission to create the file so use:
gksu gedit /usr/local/bin/rm-kernels
To make file executable use:
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/rm-kernels
NOTE: For a server (Text based, not GUI) version of this script see: How do I remove old kernel versions to clean up the boot menu?
July 28, 2017 Updates
The calculated size of each kernel was taken from /boot/*kernel_version*
which were 5 files totaling ~50 MB. The formula has changed to include the files in /usr/src/*kernel_version*
and /lib/modules/*kernel_version*
. The calculated size for each kernel is now ~400 MB. The above code for rm-kernels
and rm-kernels-server
has been updated. However, the sample screens above do not reflect these changes yet.
The default is to estimate the size of files for linux-headers at 125 MB and linux-image at 220 MB because du
can be painfully slow unless files are in cache. To get the real size using du
pass any parameter to the script.
The total of all kernel sizes (excluding the current running version which cannot be removed) is now show in the title bar.
The dialog box used to display each Kernelβs Last Access Date. This date can get mass overwritten for all kernels during backup or similar operations. The dialog box now shows the Modified Date instead.