On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 12:40 -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Does any one know what the following installed rpms do since they > prevent the removal of older kernels that the system says these > installed rpms depend on: > > dlm-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.2 > GFS-kernel-2.6.11.8-20050601.152643.FC4.2 > cman-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.12 > dlm-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.12 > dlm-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.10 > GFS-kernel-2.6.11.8-20050601.152643.FC4.9 > cman-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.2 > gnbd-kernel-2.6.11.2-20050420.133124.FC4.35 > gnbd-kernel-2.6.11.2-20050420.133124.FC4.45 > GFS-kernel-2.6.11.8-20050601.152643.FC4.14 > gnbd-kernel-2.6.11.2-20050420.133124.FC4.43 > cman-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.9 They're all part of the support for the GFS cluster filesystem. Since you don't know what they are, it's a safe bet you're not using them and it's safe to remove them. P.S. You could always do "rpm -qi dlm-kernel" etc. to find out what the package was for... Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
