How to remove non-Fedora kernels?

Robert Nichols rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net
Sat Mar 20 16:01:30 UTC 2010


On 03/19/2010 11:21 PM, Peter Boy wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 19.03.2010, 20:41 -0700 schrieb Antonio Olivares:
>> Is thare a way one can remove non Fedora kernels manually, i.e, remove
>>
>> /boot/vmlinux-2.?????
>>
>> and
>>
>> /usr/src/linux-2.???
>> or
>> /lib/modules/2.6.????/.....
>
>
> I used just to delete the files using a terminal as root, provided you
> didn't install them using rpm (rm -f /boot/vmlinux-2.??? and all related
> files as initrd-2.???, config-2.???. System.map-2.???, etc). And you
> have to adjust /boot/grub/menu.lst by remobing the lines no longer
> valid.
>
> Or do I miss something?

You've missed /lib/modules/{deleted_kernel_version} .  That's using
quite a bit more space than the stuff in /boot .

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