get rid of old kernels

[Gordon Keehn]

Jeff Vian wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 11:22 -0500, Langer, Christian wrote:
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>>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?
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>>Chris Langer
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>to list all the kernels installed do:
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>[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
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>To erase the one you want removed do:
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>[jeff at eye_gore ~]$ su -c "rpm -e kernel-2.6.9-1.667"
>Password:
>[jeff at eye_gore ~]$
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>Repeat for each kernel version to remove.
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>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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    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.
    Cheers,
Gordon Keehn