On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Dana Holland wrote:
> Someone has suggested removing old kernels as a means of recovering
> space in the / filesystem. But since I've done it before, I'm a little
> nervous about it... Here is what I currently have:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# rpm -qa 'kernel*'
> kernel-smp-2.4.18-3
> kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.27-18
> kernel-smp-2.4.20-13.7
> kernel-source-2.4.18-27.7.x
> kernel-debug-2.4.18-27.7.x
> kernel-BOOT-2.4.18-3
> kernel-bigmem-2.4.18-27.7.x
> kernel-utils-2.4-7.4
> kernel-BOOT-2.4.20-13.7
> kernel-BOOT-2.4.18-27.7.x
> kernel-smp-2.4.18-27.7.x
> kernel-2.4.18-27.7.x
> kernel-2.4.18-3
> kernel-2.4.20-13.7
> kernel-debug-2.4.18-3
> kernel-bigmem-2.4.18-3
> kernel-doc-2.4.20-13.7
>
> Which of these can be safely removed? And it's the rpm -e command that
> does it?
A production machine never has need of the BOOT kernels. They're for
installers and the like. In general, if you have to ask, you don't need
the debug kernels. The bigmem kernels are for extremely large memory
profiles (more than 4GBytes). The SMP kernels are for multiprocessor
systems, so if you only have one CPU you don't need those.
You typically want a kernel that you know is reliable, the latest kernel,
the latest kernel-source, kernel-doc, kernel-utils, and kernel-pcmcia (not
really needed if you don't have PCMCIA cards, but can't hurt). And that's
it.
Yes, "rpm -e" and supply the package name and version (since you have
multiple versions).
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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