On 14/11/18 06:19, Bev Nicolson wrote:
I seem to have an inordinately large amount of headers and images. See link to screenshot below. (Hopefully.) Is this what you mean?
Yes, absolutely. Every time you do an update and it updates "linux" (the system, rather than the other program files etc) it leaves the old version behind. If you've been updating the same machine for years, it will get full.
If you are confident you can identify the old versions, delete some of them. Make sure you leave the newest few behind, otherwise you will be left with a machine that doesn't boot. Also make sure that you're consistent.
On the screenshot, it seems like linux-image-3.13.0-87-generic is the most recent (at least on that screen). Assuming it is, I would keep it, and linux-image-3.13.0-86-generic and linux-image-3.13.0-85-generic and delete the rest.
PROVISO I think it makes sense to have a consistent set across the program names
linux-headers1 linux-headers2 linux-headers3 linux-modules1 linux-modules2 linux-image1 linux-image2 linux-image3 linux-tools1 linux-tools2 linux-tools3
If you had something like the above, I would think it's save to delete the v1 files, but leave the v2 and v3. In my contrived example, linux-modules highest version is 2.
Anyway, try with the really eldest. Note some of your files on the screenshot don't have the ubuntu orange circle next to them. That's a big hint that they're not part of the current version of ubuntu's core set of installed files, and possibly OK to delete them.
Hope that helps. Steve
Cheers Steve