> 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