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Reto Höhener
Asked: 2019-05-09 13:45:50 +0800 CST

Why is /usr/src/linux-aws-headers* growing?

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Can someone provide some background?

It seems like this folder is growing even when I'm not updating or installing any packages, but I'm not entirely sure about that.

Context: My AWS instances keep running out of disk space, and i already learned to do this periodically:

apt-get -y autoremove
apt-get -y autoclean

But I don't understand why it grows in the first place.

Also see:

EDIT: On my very new server i get this:

du -h -d1 /usr/src/ | sort -hr
266M  /usr/src/
115M  /usr/src/linux-aws-headers-4.15.0-1035
115M  /usr/src/linux-aws-headers-4.15.0-1032
19M   /usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-1035-aws
19M   /usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-1032-aws
16.04 linux-headers 18.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This is probably due to the automatic updates.

    You can disable the automatic updates and even remove the unused kernel images and headers running sudo apt autoremove --purge (as you are already doing)

    More info here: https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/automatic-updates.html

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