RE: [CentOS] LIMITING NUMBER OF KERNEL VERSIONS RETAINED

Subject: [CentOS] LIMITING NUMBER OF KERNEL VERSIONS RETAINED

Hi

Some time ago there was a discussion on the above subject. I have scanned the past few month's mailing list archives and cannot find the relevant mail(s).

Could somebody please repost the solution or point me at the correct resource.

I would also appreciate advice on how to do this on a RHEL4 server being updated with up2date.

Is it safe just to delete the old kernel and initrd files from the boot partition and the grub conf file?

TIA

ChrisG

Chris

I dunno answer to limit kernels retained.

No, simple deletion is not a good idea.

What we do is this

rpm -qa | grep kernel

Then we use yum to remove the ones we do not need

yum remove kernel-whatever-version-etc

and/or other items as necessary

- rh