On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 at 15:58, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > > > > 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. > Then you need to use the du command and see what is using up the space. Also check to make sure that the size is the same as the other systems to see why they have different amounts. -- Stephen J Smoogen.