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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