On 2/7/2019 8:14 AM, Erik Josefsson wrote: > Hello, > > I happen to have a couple of quite large old-dkms* files in my /boot > directory. > > Apparently they are not removed by aptitude autoclean (which I use > regularly). > > > Can I safely remove those files manually with rm? > > Or should I use another tool or command? > > Thanks! > > > //Erik > > > *) > > /boot$ ls -al | grep old > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26018518 jul 26 2018 > initrd.img-4.16.0-1-amd64.old-dkms > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3538944 jul 26 2018 > initrd.img-4.16.0-2-amd64.old-dkms > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28866434 jan 16 18:06 > initrd.img-4.19.0-1-amd64.old-dkms >
According to (1), you should be fine removing '.old-dkms' files in '/boot'. However, I would do a backup of those files before removing them. 1) https://askubuntu.com/questions/863380/can-i-remove-old-dkms-files -- John Doe
