[Arm-dev] New kernel takes ~130MB!

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 08/16/2018 03:00 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 at 14:44, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>> I just installed the new kernel on one of my Cubieboard2s.  /boot used
>> grew ~130MB.
>>
>> Challenge is that my next board to update only has 43MB free.  It
>> currently has 3 kernels on it.
>>
>> Is there a way to cleanly delete old kernel files prior to the update?
>> In this case 4.9.30-203?
>>
> Are you meaning something like this?
> ```
> [smooge at smoogen-laptop ~]$ rpm -q kernel
> kernel-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64
> kernel-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64
> kernel-3.10.0-862.2.3.el7.x86_64
> kernel-3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64
> kernel-3.10.0-891.el7.x86_64
> [smooge at smoogen-laptop ~]$ uname -a # to see what you have running
> Linux smoogen-laptop.localdomain 3.10.0-891.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May
> 21 14:10:11 EDT 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> $ sudo rpm -e kernel-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64
> kernel-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64 kernel-3.10.0-862.2.3.el7.x86_64

rpm -e kernel-4.9.30-203.el7.armv7hl

Did nothing.  Just came back to the # prompt.  And no reduction in space 
used in /boot and no change in 'ls /boot'.  Or at least what I noticed.



> ```
>> thanks
>>
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