Here's How to Remove Old Kernels from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Free Disk Space

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Dustin Kirkland, Ubuntu Product and Strategy at Canonical, has informed the community about a simple method of helping them remove old kernels from Ubuntu Linux, thus freeing up a lot of disk space.

Ubuntu is a great OS and all that, but it has this problem that it kinda of stores many old kernel versions on the partition where it is installed. So after some time when you keep on updating your operating system to newer kernel versions, you’ll notice that your disk drive runs out of free space.

If you’re a beginner, you start wondering what’s going on, asking questions like “Where’s my disk space disappearing?” And this does matter when you’re running Ubuntu from an SSD, which usually comes in smaller sizes than the traditional hard disk drives (HDD), those of 120GB being the most popular ones.

I am a long-time Ubuntu user, and if you’re like me, you know some tricks that you need to do fro… (read more)

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