A question for today

[Paul Howarth]

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 12:40 -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> Does any one know what the following installed rpms do since they
> prevent the removal of older kernels that the system says these
> installed rpms depend on:
> 
> dlm-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.2
> GFS-kernel-2.6.11.8-20050601.152643.FC4.2
> cman-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.12
> dlm-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.12
> dlm-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.10
> GFS-kernel-2.6.11.8-20050601.152643.FC4.9
> cman-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.2
> gnbd-kernel-2.6.11.2-20050420.133124.FC4.35
> gnbd-kernel-2.6.11.2-20050420.133124.FC4.45
> GFS-kernel-2.6.11.8-20050601.152643.FC4.14
> gnbd-kernel-2.6.11.2-20050420.133124.FC4.43
> cman-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.9

They're all part of the support for the GFS cluster filesystem. Since
you don't know what they are, it's a safe bet you're not using them and
it's safe to remove them.

P.S. You could always do "rpm -qi dlm-kernel" etc. to find out what the
package was for...

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>