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That script is available at viewtopic.php?f=213&t=250801 However it also does some additional clean-up tasks and there appears to be a bug with it. What I provided here just cleared-out old and unused kernels. You should do that when you're sure a kernel upgrade is OK and not let them pile-up :wink...

Your script worked a wonder. Took about 6 minutes to run and did the trick.
Wonderful. Happy happy happy.
Freed up 2,162 MB
And boot folder now shows only latest kernel sans junk.

much obliged.

I will try that and will post back here as being solved, should that be the case. I'll save this gem as a file somewhere for possible future use too. Thank you very much. o.t.: I smile at your animated bug gif. I e-mailed it to a friend as inline attach a year or so ago and never heard back from her...

thanks for quick reply... -rw------- 1 root root 7.1M Jul 20 08:11 /boot/vmlinuz-4.10.0-28-generic -rw------- 1 root root 7.1M Aug 1 21:58 /boot/vmlinuz-4.10.0-30-generic -rw------- 1 root root 7.1M Aug 9 05:08 /boot/vmlinuz-4.10.0-32-generic -rw------- 1 root root 7.1M Aug 11 11:59 /boot/vmlinuz-4....

hello peeps... my linux mint boot appears to be full. Yesterday message on bootup was 0 bytes remaining. After examaining as best I could and digging around, I freed up awhopping 560 bytes. Don't know what's up. Running inxi... reveals (snipt) <Drives: HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (3.9% used) ID-1: /dev/...

austin.texas wrote:Thanks, if you were booted into the one you want to keep, that is on sda1
From there, run the command:

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sudo grub-install /dev/sda

That will put the Mint you are running in control of the Grub menu, and the other Mint can safely be deleted.

Thanks a lot for sharing your expertise bro!

MattTwinkleToes wrote:Hi Boris, I will look into bleach, I have not heard of it, have you got a link?

A simple mount check before starting rsync works fine but i there is a more elegant way then i'm happy to try it.

o.t.: bleach bit is in the mint software manager.

Without seeming to be brash, have you tried bleach bit? It has two aspects - as root, and as general. I ran up against a 'no room, lack of space' several years ago problem, which I eventually solved with autoclean, autoremove, from terminal. It freed up over 2 gigs in root. Since then I run bb often...

System: Host: m-eME440 Kernel: 4.4.0-64-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Cinnamon 3.2.7 Distro: Linux Mint 18.1 Serena Partition: ID-1: / size: 124G used: 21G (18%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 ID-2: /media/m/0472d0fd-af34-4663-82a1-53483b2e1c76 size: 104G used: 11G (11%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 ID-3: sw...

thanks. The os I need to keep is the secondary (b0ttom) choice on screen prompt. And the disc usage screen pic is severely confusing to me. i.e. I don,t want to be wiping the wrong boot sector.
Plus, Gparted is greek to me. How do I find that? I have limited command usage for terminal. Loving Mint!

Hello Can someone please tell me the format command from terminal window?! I bought a GATEWAY laptop.... (big pause here while everyone laughs heartily) and the fellow repairman, who met with little success in resurrecting my e-machine AMD laptop installed my Mint (Serena) os alongside Mint Cinnamon...