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Free up boot drive for more kernels
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It has come to the point where I have been given a Linux laptop and the /boot partition is really small and only holds 2 kernels. Each time I try to upgrade it stops beacuse the /boot partition runs out of space.

Here are some commads I use to free up some space.

# check what kernel version I am currently using
uname -a

# list the kernels currently installed
sudo dpkg --list | egrep -i --color 'linux-image|linux-headers|linux-modules' | awk '{ print $2 }'

# delete the kernels I am not using
sudo apt purge <list of kernels I don't want>

Thanks to this SO post that helped me

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