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:
- Safe to remove /usr/src/linux-headers after purging older linux images?
- Why so many linux-headers, even for absent images
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 1 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)
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