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

Thu Aug 16 19:11:51 UTC 2018
Pablo Sebastián Greco <pablo at fliagreco.com.ar>

El 16/8/18 a las 15:57, Robert Moskowitz escribió:
> Fine, but does yum delete the old before installing new or afterwards?
No, it is done after a successful installation, as a part of the 
"cleanup" stage.
>
> BTW, in Fedora 28 we had so many problems with the kernels, that many 
> of had to run 6 kernels back.  Finally seem to have the problems 
> addressed...
The think is that it always keeps the current booted kernel, so if you 
are using a "working" kernel, it shouldn't be a problem.
>
> On 08/16/2018 02:50 PM, Pablo Sebastián Greco wrote:
>>
>> I always change installonly_limit in /etc/yum.conf from the default 5 
>> to 2, so you only keep the current and the new one.
>>
>> El 16/8/18 a las 15:44, Robert Moskowitz escribió:
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
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