Why /lib/modules taking so much space on xubuntu?

Question

I have a 2G home partition, /lib/modules is taking more that 1.5G. I got 12 directory named after version of kernel 2.6.32 each taking 119k. Why do I have all of that? Do I need all of that? If not, what is the clean way to remove what I don't need?

Thanks

possible duplicate of [Is there a way to remove/hide old kernel versions?](http://askubuntu.com/questions/2793/is-there-a-way-to-remove-hide-old-kernel-versions) — Lekensteyn, Mar 25 '12 at 09:54
The other question do not mention anything about disk space. — Guillaume Coté, Mar 25 '12 at 20:28

Guillaume Coté · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-25T20:30:50.543

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Automatic update is installing each new kernel, but there is no clean-up, and there is a copy of the module for each kernel.

There is a package entry called :

linux-image-<version>-generic

Removing it removed the corresponding files in /lib/modules

edited Mar 25 '12 at 20:30

answered Mar 25 '12 at 03:59

Guillaume Coté

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This is correct, but there are more complete instructions for cleanup at http://askubuntu.com/questions/2793/how-do-i-to-remove-or-hide-old-kernel-versions-to-clean-up-the-boot-menu – Amanda Apr 28 '13 at 23:51
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`sudo apt autoremove` does this for you in current Ubuntu versions. No need to manually clean the files. – Kasun Gajasinghe Jun 13 '18 at 09:49
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Autoremove does not work for me. But `sudo apt-get purge linux-image-4.15.0-45-generic` does. – Sridhar Sarnobat Apr 08 '19 at 02:59
Is this safe to do ? What am i looking in here ? What are those packages ? – Raul Chiarella Apr 13 '22 at 19:26

Why /lib/modules taking so much space on xubuntu?

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