On Saturday 09 June 2007 16:19, Mark wrote: > Hey, > > At this moment i`m trying to make fedora boot as fast as possible and some > things have to go in order to get that done. > one of those things is removing all the unused (but still loaded) kernel > modules. > > I did enter a few modules in the blacklist list (/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist) > but the modules where still loaded. > > Any suggestions on how to remove those unused but loaded modules? > > btw rmmod modulename works but not after a reboot... i want to get them out > of the lsmod list permanently! > > Thanx in favor, > Mark/ Hi Mark. Specifically, which modules are you trying to get rid of? You could make entries for them in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, which is the last init script to be run. Something like. modprobe -r <module name> Not sure if you can remove multiple modules on one line, but I think I'd put them on separate lines, and add them one at a time, in case something goes wrong, and one of them is needed, even though you may think it isn't. IIRC someone also suggested renaming the modules in /lib/modules/uname -r/ (and so on, to wherever the modules are). This way, presumably as the modules will no longer be seen, they will no longer be loaded. I'd go a bit carefull though. Maybe some of them do need to be loaded at bootup, even though removing them post bootup is causing you no problems. Nigel.
