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    [–] lokalhorst@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

    I had the problem that all old kernel images were kept when updating through the GUI updater. This led to my root partition getting fuller and fuller*. I needed some really obscure commands to remove those old images, since then I only update via terminal. I guess it was some kind of bug, but for me as a standard user it was a really serious one.

    *I need to say I made the mistake of splitting root and home and giving the root partition only 40 GB, because I read internet advices about needing to change my distro frequently, turns out that was not the case

    [–] Peffse@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    same here, and I don't know how long ago you had this problem, but the GUI can handle that as well.

    If you click the View menu, and choose Linux Kernels, it'll give you a list of all installed and available kernels. You just need to click the "remove kernels" button and check the ones you no longer need for it to clean up.

    (There is an option to remove old kernels automatically in Preferences-Automation but it doesn't seem to work)

    [–] lokalhorst@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

    I don't quite remember what I set as this was more than half a year ago. But the images couldn't be removed as easily, also not from the GUI view, as they were somehow not registered in a certain list that should have shown them. And since then I just use the terminal out of habit.

    However I just found an article about Mint removing old kernels once a week automatically.

    [–] palordrolap@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago

    That's actually easier on regular Mint than LMDE, but the advanced Synaptic package manager works on both to remove old kernels.

    ... but they're adding a dedicated kernel management tool for both versions in the next releases if I understand their most recent blog correctly.

    Like the native Mint tools, it's basically a front-end to apt and related commands.