On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 10:09 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:54:24 -0600, Syl <jkatz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am running FC2 and I have been keeping my updates current. Recently, I ran > > out of space on / and I can no longer do any updates. I have checked > > /var/log files, etc and everything appears to be in order. Here is a df of > > my system > > > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hdb2 4031560 3764916 61844 99% / > > /dev/hdb1 99043 24529 69400 27% /boot > > /dev/hdb6 20181400 8096684 11059532 43% /data > > /dev/hdb5 1007960 61404 895352 7% /home > > > > What should I do? > > > > thanks > > Syl > > > > Syl, > > Sorry I'm late... but there's one point that hasn't been touched here. > If you just keeping updating, you probably have a large number of > kernels installed that you don't use or need. Each kernel occupies a > large space. To get a list of the installed kernels, do > > rpm -q kernel > > rpm -q kernel-smp > I am not having troubles for disk space but I tried the above commands. Both reported 'package x is not installed'. In my /boot directory I have a large number of files (vmlinuz-?, system.map-?,config-? and initrd-?). If I don't want to use a particular kernal can I just delete the appropiate set of files here? Regards Neil > Also, to know which kernel is being currently used, do > > uname -r > > then you can remove the old unused kernels by (as root) > > rpm -e <<kernel name>> > > where <<kernel name>> is the name you get from the 'rpm -q' commands > above. Just remember to keep one old kernel (other than the one in use > currently) just as a safeguard. > > Also, you may turn on automatic yum updates. Then, edit the file > 'yum.cron' that will be in the /etc/cron.daily folder to: > #!/bin/sh > > if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/yum ]; then > /usr/bin/yum -R 10 -e 0 -d 0 -y update yum > /usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -y update > /usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -yC clean packages > fi > > The added last line (before the 'fi', of course) will make sure yum > cleans after itself everytime. > > HTH, and good luch with your research. > >
