Steven Rostedt wrote:
I'm not sure if this has been done already or not (let me know if it
has), but I've just noticed that after playing with several
developmental kernels I had about 30 to 40 different versions of
vmlinuz, initrd.img, config, and System.maps in my /boot directory, not
to mention all the modules loaded in /lib/modules.
So I wrote this perl script that let me pick and choose what I wanted to
clean up. Be careful, this must be run as root, and although the
default is to do nothing, if you hit a "y" in the wrong place, you can
lose that kernel.
The script is here:
http://www.kihontech.com/code/clean-boot.pl
Here's the usage:
# ./clean-boot.pl -h
usage: clean-boot.pl [-b boot_dir] [-m module_dir]
(version 0.1)
default boot_dir = /boot
default module_dir = /lib/modules
It's run like the following:
---
#./clean-boot.pl
List of versions found:
2.6.12-1-386 2.6.14 2.6.14-2-386
2.6.14-2-k7-smp 2.6.14-kthrt2 2.6.14-rt13
2.6.14-rt13-logdev1 2.6.14-rt15 2.6.14-rt20
2.6.15-rc3
Remove files for version 2.6.12-1-386 [y/N/l/q/?]: ?
y - remove files from boot and modules
n [default] - skip this version
l - list the found versions again
q - quit
? - display this message
Remove files for version 2.6.12-1-386 [y/N/l/q/?]: q
---
If you hit "y" (or yes or ye, case is ignored), it will then remove any
of the vmlinuz, initrd.img, config and System.map files for version
2.6.12-1-386 in /boot and the directory /lib/modules/2.6.12-1-386.
This is under just a public license, no warranty, so just be careful not
to delete too much.
Also remember to update lilo or grub, since this doesn't handle that.
Comments?
I also had this problem and created the attached Python script to handle
the problem. Usage is:
Usage: rmkernel.py [-i] [-v] <kernel> ....
where <kernel> can be a glob expression (n.b. lists of expressions
accepted) describing which kernels to delete, the -i option selects
interactive mode where confirmation is requested for each deletion and
-v lists each kernel that has been deleted. This script is slightly
smarter than yours in that it uses grubby to update grub (or lilo etc.)
for the removal of the kernel. Additionally, the script checks to see
if the kernel was installed via rpm and if it was uses rpm to do the
removal.
If it was thought desirable a GUI version of this program would be
fairly easy to write using rmkernel.py as a library module.
Cheers,
Peter
--
Peter Williams [email protected]
"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
-- Ambrose Bierce
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os, os.path, signal, popen2, fcntl, select, re
def make_non_blocking(fd):
fl = fcntl.fcntl(fd, fcntl.F_GETFL)
try:
fcntl.fcntl(fd, fcntl.F_SETFL, fl | os.O_NDELAY)
except AttributeError:
fcntl.fcntl(fd, fcntl.F_SETFL, fl | os.FNDELAY)
# Take advice from "Python Cookbook" on avoiding potential dead locks
# reading stdout and stderr from sub process
def run_cmd(cmd, input=None):
savedsh = signal.getsignal(signal.SIGPIPE)
signal.signal(signal.SIGPIPE, signal.SIG_DFL)
sub = popen2.Popen3(cmd, True)
if not input is None:
sub.tochild.write(input)
sub.tochild.close()
outfd = sub.fromchild.fileno()
errfd = sub.childerr.fileno()
make_non_blocking(outfd)
make_non_blocking(errfd)
outd, errd = [], []
outeof = erreof = False
while True:
to_check = [outfd] * (not outeof) + [errfd] * (not erreof)
ready = select.select(to_check, [], [])
if outfd in ready[0]:
outchunk = sub.fromchild.read()
if outchunk == '':
outeof = True
else:
outd.append(outchunk)
if errfd in ready[0]:
outchunk = sub.childerr.read()
if outchunk == '':
erreof = True
else:
errd.append(outchunk)
if outeof and erreof:
break
try:
select.select([], [], [], 0.05)
except select.error, data:
if data[0] is errno.EINTR:
pass
else:
return [ data[0], "", data[1] ]
res = sub.wait()
signal.signal(signal.SIGPIPE, savedsh)
return [ res, ''.join(outd), ''.join(errd) ]
def file_is_known_to_rpm(file):
res, so, se = run_cmd("rpm -qf " + file)
return res == 0
def remove_rpm_kernel(kernel):
kfile = kernel_file(kernel)
run_cmd("rpm -e --nodeps `rpm -qf " + kfile + "`")
def modules_dir(kernel):
return "/lib/modules/" + kernel
def kernel_file(kernel):
return "/boot/vmlinuz-" + kernel
def system_map_file(kernel):
return "/boot/System.map-" + kernel
def initrd_file(kernel):
return "/boot/initrd-" + kernel + ".img"
def remove_kernel_modules(kernel):
kmdir = modules_dir(kernel)
if os.path.isdir(kmdir):
os.system("/bin/rm -r " + kmdir)
def _remove_files(file):
if os.path.exists(file):
os.remove(file)
if os.path.exists(file + ".old"):
os.remove(file + ".old")
def remove_kernel_file(kernel):
_remove_files(kernel_file(kernel))
def remove_system_map_file(kernel):
_remove_files(system_map_file(kernel))
def remove_initrd_file(kernel):
_remove_files(initrd_file(kernel))
def remove_kernel_from_grub(kernel):
kfile = kernel_file(kernel)
if run_cmd("sudo /sbin/grubby --info=" + kfile)[0] == 0:
run_cmd("/sbin/grubby --remove-kernel=" + kfile)
def remove_kernel(kernel, verbose=False):
if verbose:
print "Removing", kernel,
if file_is_known_to_rpm(kernel_file(kernel)):
remove_rpm_kernel(kernel)
if verbose:
print "done via rpm."
else:
remove_kernel_file(kernel)
remove_system_map_file(kernel)
remove_initrd_file(kernel)
remove_kernel_modules(kernel)
remove_kernel_from_grub(kernel)
if verbose:
print "done."
def find_kernels():
kernels = os.listdir("/lib/modules")
kre = re.compile("^vmlinuz-(.*?)(.old)?$")
for f in os.listdir("/boot"):
m = kre.match(f)
if m:
k = m.group(1)
if k not in kernels:
kernels.append(m.group(1))
return kernels
if __name__ == "__main__":
import getopt, sys, fnmatch
syntax_error = False
interactive = False
verbose = False
try:
optlist, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "iv")
except getopt.GetoptError:
syntax_error = True
if syntax_error or len(args) == 0:
print "Usage: rmkernel.py [-i] [-v] <kernel> ..."
sys.exit(1)
for o, a in optlist:
if o == "-i":
interactive = True
import tty, termios
def getch():
fd = sys.stdin.fileno()
old_settings = termios.tcgetattr(fd)
try:
tty.setraw(fd)
ch = sys.stdin.read(1)
finally:
termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSADRAIN, old_settings)
return ch
if o == "-v":
verbose = True
kernels = find_kernels()
for g in args:
klist = fnmatch.filter(kernels, g)
for k in klist:
if not interactive:
remove_kernel(k, verbose)
else:
print "Delete", k, "?"
while True:
response = getch()
print response
if response in ["y", "n"]:
break
else:
beep()
if response == "y":
remove_kernel(k, verbose)
del kernels[kernels.index(k)]
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