How to reclaim disk space from /lib/modules?

Tue Jan 18 02:57:09 UTC 2005

Choo Zhi Min wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My FC2 /lib/modules now has 22 directories (from kernel 2.6.5 to 2.6.10 
> including SMP kernel), taking up a total of 950+MB of disk space. The 
> "/" partition is only 1.2GB, and now low on disk space because of the 
> kernel modules files in /lib/modules. When the next kernel update comes, 
> it will definitely run out of space.
> 
> How can I free more space from /lib/modules? Can I just delete the old 
> kernel modules files? Or yum uninstall? I have excluded kernel update in 
> yum for the moment.
> 

If you deleted the kernel, then you can delete the /lib/modules for the 
kernel.

James McKenzie