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Curious, for the "Ubuntu for Grandma" box, do you use the default partition plan? Because I find that stock Ubuntu has the infuriating habit of filling the boo
by Pxtl 10y ago
Curious, for the "Ubuntu for Grandma" box, do you use the default partition plan? Because I find that stock Ubuntu has the infuriating habit of filling the boot partition with linux kernels and then freaking out unhelpfully during later updates about the lack of space.
- seanp2k2 10y agoRun purge-old-kernels on an @reboot crontab: http://news.softpedia.com/news/here-s-how-to-remove-old-kernels-from-ubuntu-16-04-lts-and-free-disk-space-505348.shtml http://news.softpedia.com/news/here-s-how-to-remove-old-kern...
- StavrosK 10y agoI do, yes, although that is a problem I have even on my machines. I just periodically clean their kernels up...
- mkesper 10y agoTried Ubuntu for my great-grandpa. Having to redownload 100s of MB because of prebundled DE was stupid (was coming from SuSe/KDE). Also the upgrade story was not so good at that time, switched him to Debian and never looked back.
- theandrewbailey 10y agoFor my mom, I think I set one partition for everything. I doubt an email, web, and solitare machine is going to eat a 256GB SSD over a year or so.