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[David Watkins]

2010/1/14 Jonno <jonnojohnson at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Jan Johansson <j2 at mupp.net> wrote:
>> apt-get clean [deletes cached installation packages, may reclaim some space]
>>
>> dpkg -l | grep linux-image
>>
>> will show you the installed kernels
>>
>> apt-get remove linux-image-2.6.22-3-amd64  [replace name as needed]
>>
>> will remove said kernel.
>
> Ok I got into the terminal and there were lots of kernels listed under
> dpkg -l | managed to delete one of them and then db -Th showed my
> space as 81% used. I think I must have cleaned something else up along
> the way though because / is 12GB and I don't think removing one kernel
> should free up 2.4GB.


Just to check, do you have /home /var and /tmp in separate partitions
or are any of these locations within the / partition?

I learn't the hard way and now create separate partitions to avoid
unexpectedly running out of space on the root partition.