Disk full -- any suggestions on what to move to SD card?

[Evan Leibovitch]

Alex Maynard wrote:
>
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>
>> Alex Maynard wrote:
>>> Jamon, Thanks for the good suggestion. Any particularly large software
>>> packages that I could safely remove.
>>
>> Then there are old versions of stuff. Usually when Ubuntu installs a new
>> kernel it doesn't get rid of the old one, so you might have duplicate
>> old kernels hanging around. Try the command <apt-cache search
>> linux-image>
>> to see how many kernel versions you have installed.
>
> I was out of town for a while and now trying to follow up on some of
> these good suggestions. It looks like I have a lot kernal images
> installed but I'm not sure which I can remove. It's a new computer so
> I did a fresh installation. Maybe that means that all are needed.
>
> ~/share$ sudo apt-cache search linux-image
> alsa-base - ALSA driver configuration files
> rt2400-source - source for rt2400 wireless network driver
> rt2500-source - source for rt2500 wireless network driver
> virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.22-14-generic - virtualbox-ose modules for
> linux-image-2.6.22-14-generic
> virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.22-14-server - virtualbox-ose modules for
> linux-image-2.6.22-14-server
> xen-image-2.6.19-4-generic - Linux 2.6.19 image on
> PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
> xen-image-2.6.19-4-server - Linux xen 2.6.19 image on x86.
> linux-image - Generic Linux kernel image.
> linux-image-2.6.22-14-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.22 on i386
> linux-image-2.6.22-14-generic - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.22
> on x86/x86_64
> linux-image-2.6.22-14-server - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.22
> on x86/x86_64
> linux-image-2.6.22-14-virtual - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.22
> on x86
> linux-image-2.6.22-15-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.22 on i386
> linux-image-2.6.22-15-generic - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.22
> on x86/x86_64
> linux-image-2.6.22-15-server - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.22
> on x86/x86_64
> linux-image-2.6.22-15-virtual - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.22
> on x86
> linux-image-386 - Linux kernel image on 386.
> linux-image-debug-2.6.22-14-386 - Linux kernel debug image for version
> 2.6.22 on i386
> linux-image-debug-2.6.22-14-generic - Linux kernel debug image for
> version 2.6.22 on x86/x86_64
> linux-image-debug-2.6.22-14-server - Linux kernel debug image for
> version 2.6.22 on x86/x86_64
> linux-image-debug-2.6.22-14-virtual - Linux kernel debug image for
> version 2.6.22 on x86
> linux-image-debug-2.6.22-15-386 - Linux kernel debug image for version
> 2.6.22 on i386
> linux-image-debug-2.6.22-15-generic - Linux kernel debug image for
> version 2.6.22 on x86/x86_64
> linux-image-debug-2.6.22-15-server - Linux kernel debug image for
> version 2.6.22 on x86/x86_64
> linux-image-debug-2.6.22-15-virtual - Linux kernel debug image for
> version 2.6.22 on x86
> linux-image-debug-386 - Linux kernel debug image for 386 kernel image
> linux-image-debug-generic - Linux kernel debug image for generic
> kernel image
> linux-image-debug-server - Linux kernel debug image for server kernel
> image
> linux-image-generic - Generic Linux kernel image
> linux-image-server - Linux kernel image on Server Equipment.
> linux-image-virtual - Linux kernel image geared towards virtualised
> hardware
> linux-image-2.6.22-14-rt - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.22 on RT
> kernel
> linux-image-2.6.22-14-ume - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.22 on
> Ubuntu Moblie and Embedded
> linux-image-2.6.22-14-xen - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.22 on
> This kernel can be used for Xen dom0 and domU
> linux-image-2.6.22-15-rt - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.22 on RT
> kernel
> linux-image-2.6.22-15-ume - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.22 on
> Ubuntu Moblie and Embedded
> linux-image-2.6.22-15-xen - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.22 on
> This kernel can be used for Xen dom0 and domU
> linux-image-debug-ume - Linux kernel debug image for ume kernel image
> linux-image-rt - Linux kernel image on realtime kernel
> linux-image-ume - Linux kernel image on 386 Embedded/Mobile
> linux-image-xen - Linux kernel image on Xen

The next time you boot, Ubuntu will ask which kernel to boot from.
Chhose the latest one (which for you is 2.6.22-15). If you boot
successfully with that then you can probably delete anything older,
which includes any files containing "2.6.22-14".

(Some people have multiple old versions lying around.)


> I guess I have a similiar question: which of these x-server packages
> look safe to remove?
>
>
> amaynard at asus:~/share$ sudo apt-cache search xserver
> displayconfig-gtk - Simple tool to change xserver settings
> isdnutils-base - ISDN utilities, the basic (minimal) set
> xserver-xorg - the X.Org X server
> xserver-xorg-input-all - the X.Org X server -- input driver metapackage
> xserver-xorg-input-elographics - X.Org X server -- ELOGraphics input
> driver
> xserver-xorg-input-evdev - X.Org X server -- evdev input driver
> xserver-xorg-input-kbd - X.Org X server -- keyboard input driver
> xserver-xorg-input-mouse - X.Org X server -- mouse input driver
> xserver-xorg-input-synaptics - Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server
> xserver-xorg-input-wacom - X.Org X server -- wacom input driver
[...]

Sorry, but I don't know this one myself. Perhaps there is someone else
who can help. I don't know the commend to query the X server to find
what drivers it is using (so you can delete the others).

- Evan


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