[CentOS] LIMITING NUMBER OF KERNEL VERSIONS RETAINED
Robert - elists
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Sun Jan 13 08:09:12 UTC 2008
> 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
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