Re: how to delete kernels cleanly

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The kernel shipped by ubuntu can be purged by apt-get. It's easy.
The kernel you build can be cleaned in this way :
  1. clean the corresponding kernel file in /usr/src/
  2. clean the corresponding file in /lib/modules/ 
  3. update your grub by grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

2015-07-22 22:46 GMT+08:00 leo kirotawa <kirotawa@xxxxxxxxx>:
I often delete files related to these kernels in /boot/, then
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cf , but I'm quite sure lib/modules
will still remain

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Ahmed Soliman
<ahmedsoliman0x666@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have many kernels on my machine and I want to delete some of them
> what can I do
> some of these kernels are shipped with the OS ubuntu 14.04 and others I built by
> make oldconfig
> make all
> make modules
> sudo make modules_install
> sudo make install
>
> now how can I these kernels
>
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