[RndTbl] Removing old kernel images

[Trevor Cordes]

On 2015-03-20 Kevin McGregor wrote:
> I have a Ubuntu 10.04.3 (I know) system with many old kernel images.
> The problem (maybe) is I've been told the system is out of inodes. I

Oops.

> thought I would try to get rid of at least one old kernel image, and
> this happens:
> 
> $ sudo apt-get -y purge linux-image-2.6.32-28-server
>   linux-headers-virtual: Depends: linux-headers-2.6.32-66-server but
> it is not going to be installed or
>                                   linux-headers-2.6.32-66-generic-pae
> but it is not installable

"not installable" may indicate out-of-space/inodes.  Or you have some
weird combo of dep packages installed for the old kernel (-28) that
aren't also in the new (-66).  Perhaps the inode problem has screwed
things up on earlier updates.

I would start by clearing up several thousand inodes elsewhere on the
system.  This could be as simple as popping on a usb stick or external
drive and mv'ing a bunch of stuff from a home dir or data dir to it
temporarily.  Once that is done, then fight with apt-get.

Curiously, what does df -i / and df -k / say?

Did you tweak the NBPI / other inode specs at mkfs time on this box?
Very weird a non-tweaker user would run out of inodes these days... not
like us inode tweakers :-)  (Trevor motto: if it's tweakable, tweak it!)