Bootgroom

Description

Keeping kernel packages up-to-date means that many kernel packages gets installed over time. The task to remove older kernel is tedious. Furthermore, if the /boot partition is full, the package manager can be stuck. This script will safely remove all unused kernels packages. It will not remove the current kernel, or the latest kernel installed. It will not remove unpackaged kernels, as long as they didn't overwrite packaged kernels. By default it will also remove linux-headers packages.

Because an half-installed kernel will make uninstallation impossible, initrd files from packages to be removed are emptied first, and then apt-get -f install will be run.

Requirements

• A Debian-based distribution
• python-debian

Usage

• bootgroom will list the packages to be removed.
• bootgroom -v will list the packages to be removed and show the command it will run.
• bootgroom -c will remove all unused and outdated kernel and kernel headers packages, with confirmation.

Options

• -h, --help show this help message and exit
• -v, --verbose Display execution on stdout
• -H, --keep-headers Don't remove linux-headers-* packages
• -c, --clean Clean /boot
• -y, --yes Assume yes for apt-remove
• -Y, --oh-yes Assume yes (add -y for apt-remove)
• -q, --quiet No output