get rid of old kernels

[kwhiskers]

You're right. My /lib/modules only doesn't get sanitized because Ihave the 
nvidia kernel module there.

On 4/18/05, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 17:11 -0600, kwhiskers wrote:
> > Don't forget to manually delete the /lib/modules/kernel-version
> > directory.
> >
> 
> 1. Please don't top post.
> 
> 2. For your information, using rpm to erase the old kernel versions
> does that for you (as well as modifying grub.conf and other things that
> would be a nightmare to do manually).
> 
> 
> > 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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