Clearing Out /boot

Posted by bob on Jun 29, 2018 2:17 PM EDT
Linux Journal; By Adam McPartlan
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The /boot partition sometimes needs a bit of attention. If you enable automatic updates, it will fill up with old kernels that you'll probably never need. It also will stop you from running aptitude to install or remove anything. If you find yourself in this situation, you can use dpkg to get around it. dpkg is the higher-level package manager in Debian-based distributions, and it's very useful when aptitude has broken.

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