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I've read some questions on here about purging old kernels to make room in /boot. The recommendation is to run something like this: sudo apt-get purge linux-image-x.x.x-{xx,xx,xx}-generic but there is no mention of linux-image-extra-x.x.x-xx-generic.

Should I be purging these as well?

For example here is my current output of dpkg -l | grep linux-image:

ii  linux-image-3.13.0-55-generic                         3.13.0-55.94                                        amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-3.13.0-57-generic                         3.13.0-57.95                                        amd64        Linux kernel image for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
rc  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-44-generic                   3.13.0-44.73                                        amd64        Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
rc  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-45-generic                   3.13.0-45.74                                        amd64        Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-55-generic                   3.13.0-55.94                                        amd64        Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-57-generic                   3.13.0-57.95                                        amd64        Linux kernel extra modules for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-generic                                   3.13.0.57.64                                        amd64        Generic Linux kernel image
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There is no need of linux-image-extra without linux-image of the same version. You can purge them.

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