On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 19:54 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > > Greeting Jose, > > > > Pichin wrote: > >> Can someone tell me how to remove old kernels, I have about 5 old > >> kernels and only use one (the most recent one).. > >> > > There are two places that you have to visit . > > > > 1. the /boot directory > > > > In here you will find a set of three files for each kernel version that > > you have installed for example > > > > initrd-2.6.17.8.img > > System.map-2.6.17.8 > > vmlinuz-2.6.17.8 > > > > If you wish to remove the 2.6.17.8 kernel then you will have to remove > > the above three files . > > > > Beware of one thing here > > > > There is a symbolic link for System.map > > You will have to make sure that it doesn't point in our > > example to System.map-2.6.17.8 > > Also there is a symbolic link for vmlinuz , so again you will have to > > pay attention that it doesn't point to the file you want to delete . > > > > After you clean the above set of 3 files from the boot directory ( > > initrd,System.map,vmlinuz) you have to go to the /lib/modules/ directory > > There is the location that the kernel modules are stored . > > Delete all the directories that corespond to the kernels that you don't > > want to keep . > > > > HTH, > > > > Kostas > > > While this would work, it is not a good way to do it on a system > with package management. You are much better off using rpm or yum to > remove the kernel packages. This keeps your RPM database accurate. > As others have covered how to use yum and rpm to do this, as well as > how to remove any kernel development packages that way be installed, > I will not go into that. One other way you can do it is to use the > yum extender GUI, remove section, searching for kernel, and pick the > packages you want to remove. > Using the package manager also removes the entire package. There is a lot more to a kernel than the 3 files in /boot, including /lib/modules/<kernel version>, the entry in /boot/grub/grub.conf, the entry in the rpm database, etc. > Mikkel > -- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, > for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! >
