[CentOS] Safe method to remove old kernels

Bart Schaefer barton.schaefer at gmail.com
Fri Oct 12 15:00:00 UTC 2007


On 10/12/07, Scott Moseman <scmoseman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm running the most recent kernel available, and I've never had a
> problem with any past kernels, so I don't believe there's any reason
> to keep all of them.  I guess kernels get a fresh install instead of
> an upgrade?  Can I safely rpm-e the old kernel packages?  Should this
> be something I do through yum instead?

yum install yum-utils
package-cleanup --oldkernels --count 2

(Increase the count to keep more kernels.)



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