Safe to remove /usr/src/linux-headers after purging older linux images?
Those are header files are contained in the linux-headers-*
and linux-headers-*-generic
packages. It should be safe to remove them through apt-get. Maybe apt-get autoremove
will already suggest that to you. Please do not remove them manually!
I just had this issue, and the suggestion to use apt-get autoremove
did not work for me.
I resolved it by doing:
sudo apt-get purge linux-headers-3.2.0-23
on such linux headers that lived in /usr/src
. I did not remove the headers that correspond to the kernel currently being used.
Restarted the server successfully.