On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 21:30 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Richard E Miles wrote: > > > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:12:02 +1000 > > Neil Dugan <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> 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'. > > Very odd. Did you spell "kernel" right (all lower-case, e.g.)? You > certainly have at least one kernel RPM 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? > > That's not a good idea. The RPM database will think you still have those > files, and it may confuse things at some point later. Better to figure > out why you are getting the unexpected error. > > >> > >> 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. > >>>[...] > > > > I think that you can delete multiple kernels if you put then all in one > > command, thus: > > rpm -e kernel.version1 kernel.version2 etc > > Correct. > > -- > Matthew Saltzman > > Clemson University Math Sciences > mjs AT clemson DOT edu > http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs > I tend to get a little anal when it comes to RPM'ing off kernels This should be a tad safer: uname -r to get your currently running kernel rpm -qa |grep -i kernel to get the list of installed kernels rpm -e them off one at a time, taking explicit care not to remove the one you are running also take a look at the find string I posted a few days ago in this thread. You can do an rpm -qf on any of the big files & figure out if you can do without the rpm that particular file belongs to. YMMV -- Tony Placilla, RHCT anthony_placilla@xxxxxxxx J.O.A.T. GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/C78F8B64 http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = A8D5 7AFF CE88 4179 C792 D9A9 F197 2A15 C78F 8B64
