[CentOS] Removing old kernels

Steve Huff shuff at vecna.org
Wed Jun 3 17:48:35 UTC 2009


On Jun 3, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:

> I have the following kernels on my /boot:
>
> 2.6.18-128.1.6
> 2.6.18-92.1.18
> 2.6.18-92.1.22
>
> I'm low on /boot space and need to remove the oldest version.  It
> appears that I cannot use yum to remove since all of the versions are
> the same (only the release is different).  I believe that I can use  
> rpm
> to remove the old version, but I also need to remove them from the
> grub.conf.   Any other considerations and/or methods?


you can indeed use yum to remove them; why would you think you could  
not?

$ sudo yum remove kernel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 kernel- 
devel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 kernel-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 kernel- 
devel-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5  kernel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 kernel- 
devel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5

-steve

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