First, my apologies for writing in English only. I do read French but as
a transplanted American write it rather poorly.
But to the point, a great solution to the problem of too many old and no
longer needed kernels is a script written by Kim Kulak, Fearless Founder
of Ubuntu Vancouver. Kim has given me permission to share his script
with Ubuntu users everywhere. Here is Kim's description of what his
script does.
"What the script does is make a list of all the kernels installed on
your system. From that list it removes the kernels you want to keep, the
last installed kernel, the previously installed kernel, and the
currently running kernel. (Note that the presently running kernel is
almost always the same as the last installed kernel.) The script will
then print the list of kernels it will keep and a list of the kernels it
will purge,and then prompt you for your password so that it can purge
the unneeded kernels. You'll then see a lot of output as the kernels are
purged and your grub menu is updated." Please do wait until the script
finishes. It may take several minutes and works around for each kernel
being removed. A little patience, eh?
Were one (or more) of the technically advanced members of Ubuntu Quebec
to request it I would gladly send Kim's "purge-kernel" script to them.
It truly can be run by any user capable of opening a terminal and
following two very simple steps. Or even by a couple of simple steps in
Nautilus or Caja.
From personal experience I know it works as described for my
UnbuntuMate 14.04 LTS as well as for my wife's Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
For those using the script from Nautilus or Caja they must first set the
properties of the script file to be executable in a terminal.
For those using the script directly in a terminal here are the two
simple commands (assuming one has saved the script to one's home
folder.) N.B., the first command need only be run once as it sets the
file properties.
The two commands are:
chmod +x purge-kernel
./purge-kernel
N.B., Ubuntu Vancouver was begun in March 2009 and can be found in
Meetup at http://www.meetup.com/ubuntuvancouver/ .
Kim can be reached at kim DOT kulak AT gMail DOT com .
Georges
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