Re: why does virtualbox keep all my old /lib/modules directories around?

[Ed Greshko]

On 02/24/18 15:32, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>    not sure why i never noticed this before, but even though updating
>  my fedora box keeps only the last three versions of the kernel, i have
>  a couple dozen /lib/modules directories each representing an older
>  version of the kernel going back to 4.11.12, and when i examine all
>  those old directories, they contain nothing but:
>
>  4.11.12-200.fc25.x86_64
>  │   └── misc
>  │       ├── vboxdrv.ko
>  │       ├── vboxnetadp.ko
>  │       ├── vboxnetflt.ko
>  │       └── vboxpci.ko
>
>  ... etc etc ...
>
>    i'm sure i'm safe to manually remove all those older /lib/modules,
>  but should i be surprised that they're even there? is there something
>  i can configure about virtualbox to not have it lock those old
>  directories in place? 
Sounds more like the kernel removal process than anything related to virtualbox.

As a test, you could manually remove the oldest of the 3 kernels on your system and
see what that results in.

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