On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 22:33 -0500, Clifford Snow wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 14:04, Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic
> -
> Java System Software - Sun Microsystems wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Being sort of a newbie to Linux, I was wondering if someone could
> post
> > some hints as to what is the best way to free up space on a disk. I
> find
> > myself running out of disk space and would like to remove any
> > uncessesary junk left over from upgrades, kernel builds, software
> > installations, etc. Is there a good tutorial somwhere which tells
> me
> > what I can delete and what not?
>
> You can remove old kernels by using:
> rpm -e kernel-2.(the old versions)
> Run rpm -qa|grep kernel
> to see what old kernels you have.
> Run uname -r
> to get your current kernel.
>
> When I get around to cleaning things up, I like to leave at least the
> previous one and, of course, the current one.
If you have been doing custom kernel builds you will find old vmlinux-
<version> and initrd-<version>.img files in /boot. Be sure to edit
/boot/grub/grub.conf to match what you clean up.
Old kernel sources are very large compared to the compiled kernels.
rpm -e kernel-source-<version>
or for newer kernels:
rpm -e kernel-sourcecode-<version>
If not installed by RPM, sources can be cleaned up while at a level
above the build directory by:
rm -rf linux-<version>
For old update files - depending on update method:
yum clean
apt-get autoclean
apt-get clean # more agressive
Seems like up2date should have a similar option but it's not obvious and
I don't use it. Could do
find /var/spool/up2date -type f -name "*.rpm" -exec /bin/rm {} \;
If you're desperate for space and feeling brave.
> I believe that rpm -e will also clean up grub.
And leave you with an unbootable machine? ;^)
Phil
