From: sc@fiat-linux.fr
Le 14-02-2026, pothead a écrit :
> On 2026-02-13, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>> Le 13-02-2026, pothead a écrit :
>>>
>>> So under LinuxMint Cinammon how do I safely delete older kernels I don't
use
>>> but are taking up space?
>>> I remember trying this a year or two ago under MXLinux and the results
were a spectacular failure
>>> so obviously I missed something :)
>>> TIA
>>
>> I don't know cinamon and GUIs, but I guess Mint is either based on
>> Ubuntu or on debian, so it uses apt.
>> You should run "apt autoclean" and "apt autoremove" from time to time to
>> remove old packages and necessary dependencies. Maybe it will clean your
>> older kernels at the same time. I'd say it should but I'm not sure.
>
> Thank you!
> Appreciate the advice.
I'm not an expert of Ubuntu/Debian/Mint, so if I had to manage your
computer, I'd first try to run
```apt update && apt upgrade && apt autoclean && autoremove```
once a day to see what happens to the old kernels. If the old kernels
are removed, so I would just keep doing that. But if that's not enough,
you should find the Mint (maybe Ubuntu/debian) way to remove the old
kernels for two reasons:
- The kernels are stored in a limited partition separated from your main
partition to be accessed by the UEFI. So if you should have well
enough space for a normal usage, if you keep every old kernels
accumulating, there will be a time where you won't have enough space
on your partition.
- The grub will have issues when it has to manage too many kernels. I
don't know the limits, but if you have too many kernels, I saw some
guys having trouble to add or remove some useless kernels. I'm not
speaking about three or four kernels, but about dozens accumulated
with time.
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