get rid of old kernels

kwhiskers kwhiskers at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 23:11:25 UTC 2005


Don't forget to manually delete the /lib/modules/kernel-version directory.

On 4/18/05, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> 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 at 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 at eye_gore ~]$ su -c "rpm -e kernel-2.6.9-1.667"
> Password:
> [jeff at 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.
> 
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