[CentOS] LIMITING NUMBER OF KERNEL VERSIONS RETAINED

[Alfred von Campe]

> 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.

What you want is:

   # yum instal yum-utils

followed by:

   # package-cleanup --oldkernels [--count=x]

where x defaults to "2" (i.e., keep two older kernels).

Alfred