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It it safe to remove GA kernels when using HWE?

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I am running Ubuntu 22.04 with ZFS on root. My boot partition is only 1.8GB - I find that it is constantly running out of space with snapshots of just a couple kernel updates.

dpkg -l | grep linux-image | grep ^ii reports that I have 4 kernels installed:

ii  linux-image-5.15.0-100-generic             5.15.0-100.110                          amd64        Signed kernel image genericii  linux-image-5.15.0-92-generic              5.15.0-92.102                           amd64        Signed kernel image genericii  linux-image-6.5.0-17-generic               6.5.0-17.17~22.04.1                     amd64        Signed kernel image genericii  linux-image-6.5.0-25-generic               6.5.0-25.25~22.04.1                     amd64        Signed kernel image genericii  linux-image-generic                        5.15.0.100.97                           amd64        Generic Linux kernel imageii  linux-image-generic-hwe-22.04              6.5.0.25.25~22.04.12                    amd64        Generic Linux kernel image

Ideally, I would only have 2 kernels installed at a time to keep snapshots smaller. However, sudo apt autoremove insists on keeping 2 HWE (6.5.*) and 2 GA (5.15.*) kernels around.

I only am using the HWE kernels and not the GA ones. sudo apt remove linux-image-generic linux-headers-generic --dry-run suggests that this would allow the GA kernels to be auto removed. My question is whether it is safe to do this? Will it potentially cause problems in the future when upgrading to a new version of Ubuntu?

I also noticed that the linux-generic package isn't installed, only linux-generic-hwe-20.04 (not sure why) and linux-generic-hwe-22.04. So I'm wondering if maybe the linux-image-generic and linux-headers-generic shouldn't be there either?


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