[CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space
Dr. Ed Morbius
dredmorbius at gmail.com
Thu Mar 10 00:48:41 UTC 2011
on 15:49 Wed 09 Mar, Keith Keller (kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us) wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 01:44:18PM -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
> > on 09:24 Wed 09 Mar, Simon Matter (simon.matter at invoca.ch) wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes, only that reinstall doesn't exist in EL4 :)
> >
> > It doesn't?
> >
> > rpm -Uvh <packagelist>
>
> Creating the package list is what yum does automatically; using rpm
> directly means creating a list of URLs or downloading rpms
> individually.
See my other recent post to this thread for how that's done.
Essentially: use RPM to generate a list of all packages. List all
files in those packages. Filter for files on /boot. Identify the
packages with files on /boot. Reinstall those packages.
It's a shell one-liner.
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