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Remove old and unused Linux Kernels on Debian
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remove-old-kernels.sh
#! /bin/bash
dpkg --list | awk '{print $2}' | grep linux-image | grep -v -e linux-image-amd64 -e "linux-image-`uname -r`" -e `aptitude show linux-image-amd64 | grep '^Depends:' | cut -d : -f 2 | tr -d ' '` | xargs apt-get -y purge
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Programie commented Jun 1, 2017

This will remove all installed Linux Kernels excluding the kernel currently in use (linux-image-uname -r) and excluding the latest kernel (found using "Depends" field of linux-image-amd64 package).

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