Re: get rid of old kernels

[Gordon Keehn <gordonkeehn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Vian wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 11:22 -0500, Langer, Christian wrote:
>  
>
> > I installed the latest fc3 kernel and would like to get rid of the old
> > one to save disk space; does anyone know how to do that?
> >
> > Chris Langer
> >
> >
> >    
> to list all the kernels installed do:
>
> [jeff@eye_gore ~]$ rpm -qa kernel
> kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3
> kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3
> kernel-2.6.9-1.667
>
>
> To erase the one you want removed do:
>
> [jeff@eye_gore ~]$ su -c "rpm -e kernel-2.6.9-1.667"
> Password:
> [jeff@eye_gore ~]$
>
> Repeat for each kernel version to remove.
>
> As someone has already said it has been discussed several times, but for
> this use, rpm is much nicer than yum.
>  
   And apt (synaptic) is even nicer.  I keep the highest level kernel 
and the next highest stable version as a backup.  When I request that 
synaptic install a new kernel, at the same time I remove the old 
version.  Grub and the /lib directory subtree are cleaned up 
automagically.  OK, I know it's rpm that does the dirty deed under the 
covers, but synaptic makes it a lot easier to manage multiple kernel 
versions in a consistent fashion.
   Cheers,
Gordon Keehn