RE: [CentOS] Cleaning up smp kernels

Jim Perrin wrote:

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Bowie Bailey Bowie_Bailey@buc.com wrote:

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I have used the package-cleanup utility to remove old kernel packages, but I noticed that it only removes the 'kernel' and 'kernel-devel' packages. It does not touch 'kernel-smp', 'kernel-hugemem', etc. What is the recommended method of cleaning up these other kernel packages? Should I just 'yum remove' the ones I don't need?

Some of my servers have a few piling up...

http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/useful-scripts/kernel-prune.py

this will generate a list of old kernel bits you don't need. You can pipe it through rpm -e for cleanup.

So what you are saying is that it is ok to simply 'rpm -e' or 'yum remove' unused kernel packages?