Removing old FC kernals

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Jul 3 11:44:59 UTC 2006


Andrew Wood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to free-up some space on my computer to install FC5. I have about 
> 14 images of the kernals in the boot directory - from FC3 onwards.
> 
> Can I simply delete these files from the boot directory - except for the 
> most recent of course! Or is there some tool I'm supposed to use to do 
> this cleanly? Actually, which files can I delete that correspond with 
> each image - just to be thorough.
> 
> Thanks for you help,

Simplest way:

# yum install yum-utils
# package-cleanup --oldkernels

Paul.




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