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I was wondering why my fairly small but reasonably sized root partition was so full. I realized that I had tons of old Linux kernels installed.
Thursday, 29-Sep-16 18:10:24 UTC from web-
@adiwan What does a kernel look like ?
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@critialcloudkicker It's the core of the operating system. It contains all the infrastructure for I/O processing, scheduling of processes, drivers/driver loading mechanisms, and much more.
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@adiwan That is indeed an awesome answer to what is a kernel, but since I never actually thought about how you could have multiple kernels in my /boot/vmlinuz* ... Just trying to immagine what it would look like, Unless if Linux Kernels are just files with a version number mashed into the name.
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@critialcloudkicker Ah. The image itself is in /boot/ as you know. But the other part that filled up the hard disk space is in /lib/modules/ where the kernel modules are stored.
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