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rhelsing / clean_up_boot.sh
Created April 4, 2017 11:25 — forked from lloeki/clean_up_boot.sh
Clean up /boot of unused Ubuntu (and Debian?) kernels
# Ubuntu has a stupid policy of not cleaning up boots because they deem
# unknowable whether a kernel is valid or not (even if booted). Combined with
# the default Ubuntu setup that creates a ridiculously small /boot that is
# bound to be filled in a few months worth of updates, you have a recipe for a
# failure during upgrade, leading to being unable to update or remove anything
# and having to mess with apt and dpkg innards by hand.
# This may work for Debian too.
# This one liner keeps /boot fresh and clean by removing the currently
# running kernel version as well as the latest one (which may not be