Re: [bitfolk] Help needed repairing VPS damage

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Author: Ian Hobson
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Subject: Re: [bitfolk] Help needed repairing VPS damage


On 03/06/2020 14:41, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 01:38:48PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
>> My general rule when clearing out unused kernel pages is to keep
>                                                   ^^images
>> both the currently-running kernel and the one it's supposed to run.
>> So in your case that's linux-image-4.15.0-88 and -101.

>>

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your input. I ran

dpkg -l linux-{image,headers}-"[0-9]*" | awk '/^ii/{ print $2}' | grep
-v -e `uname -r | cut -f1,2 -d"-"` | grep -e '[0-9]' | xargs sudo
apt-get -y purge

And manually removed the files that this complained it could not delete.
Was a bit surprised to see modules for -101 in that list.

Can't pick them up from .bash_history because I was inside mc.

My /boot dir is still full of stuff, most of which I suspect is surplus
to requirements.

ian@hobsoni:/boot$ dir -ls
total 510312
   216 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   217495 Feb 11 18:53 config-4.15.0-88-generic
     4 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root     4096 Mar 27 20:29 grub
11384 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11655011 Jun  3 14:13 
initrd.img-4.15.0-101-generic
14308 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14649463 May  8 11:22 
initrd.img-4.15.0-45-generic
14308 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14649437 May  8 11:21 
initrd.img-4.15.0-46-generic
26344 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26971904 May  8 11:21 
initrd.img-4.15.0-47-generic
14308 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14649219 May  8 11:21 
initrd.img-4.15.0-48-generic
26344 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26970567 May  8 11:20 
initrd.img-4.15.0-50-generic
14308 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14649557 May  8 11:20 
initrd.img-4.15.0-52-generic
26344 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26971866 May  8 11:20 
initrd.img-4.15.0-54-generic
14308 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14649448 May  8 11:19 
initrd.img-4.15.0-58-generic
14308 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14649467 May  8 11:19 
initrd.img-4.15.0-60-generic
14308 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14649446 May  8 11:19 
initrd.img-4.15.0-62-generic
14308 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14649425 May  8 11:19 
initrd.img-4.15.0-64-generic
14308 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14649448 May  8 11:19 
initrd.img-4.15.0-65-generic
14308 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14649425 May  8 11:18 
initrd.img-4.15.0-66-generic
26360 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26988510 May  8 11:18 
initrd.img-4.15.0-70-generic
14312 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14649452 May  8 11:18 
initrd.img-4.15.0-72-generic
26412 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27041533 May  8 11:18 
initrd.img-4.15.0-74-generic
14308 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14649542 May  8 11:17 
initrd.img-4.15.0-76-generic
26416 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27045245 May  8 11:17 
initrd.img-4.15.0-88-generic
14308 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14649199 May  8 11:17 
initrd.img-4.15.0-91-generic
56856 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58212492 May  8 11:17 
initrd.img-4.15.0-96-generic
56852 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58209031 May 23 16:18 
initrd.img-4.15.0-99-generic
14312 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14649473 May  8 11:22 
initrd.img-4.4.0-112-generic
14308 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14649457 May  8 11:22 
initrd.img-4.4.0-116-generic
  3976 -rw------- 1 root root  4069510 Feb 11 18:53 
System.map-4.15.0-88-generic
  8176 -rw------- 1 root root  8371864 Feb 11 18:57 
vmlinuz-4.15.0-88-generic
ian@hobsoni:/boot$


Regards

Ian

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