get rid of old kernels
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Apr 19 13:49:35 UTC 2005
Gordon Keehn wrote:
> Jeff Vian wrote:
>> 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.
You remove the old kernel (and its modules) whilst you're still running it?
Paul.
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