[CentOS] Removing old kernels

[Frank M. Ramaekers]

Nevermind....figured it out.

Thanks,

Frank M. Ramaekers Jr.
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-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf Of Frank M. Ramaekers
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 1:38 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Removing old kernels

Running Transaction
  Erasing        : kernel
[1/1]

Removed: kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-92.1.18.el5
Complete!

That seemed to work, but I still have some 92.1.18 elements left:
ls -l /boot/*92.1.18*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   65438 Nov 12  2008
/boot/config-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5debug
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   65364 Nov 12  2008
/boot/config-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5PAE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   65292 Nov 12  2008
/boot/config-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5xen
-rw------- 1 root root 3151859 Nov 13  2008
/boot/initrd-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5debug.img
-rw------- 1 root root 3148814 Nov 13  2008
/boot/initrd-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5PAE.img
-rw------- 1 root root 3148909 Nov 13  2008
/boot/initrd-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5xen.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   92220 Nov 12  2008
/boot/symvers-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5debug.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   91787 Nov 12  2008
/boot/symvers-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5PAE.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   93282 Nov 12  2008
/boot/symvers-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5xen.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  926863 Nov 12  2008
/boot/System.map-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5debug
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  910396 Nov 12  2008
/boot/System.map-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5PAE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  908613 Nov 12  2008
/boot/System.map-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5xen
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1984020 Nov 12  2008
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5debug
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1802932 Nov 12  2008
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5PAE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2162864 Nov 12  2008
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5xen
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  328836 Nov 12  2008
/boot/xen.gz-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  714752 Nov 12  2008
/boot/xen-syms-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5

Frank M. Ramaekers Jr.
Systems Programmer                   MCP, MCP+I, MCSE & RHCE
American Income Life Insurance Co.   Phone: (254)761-6649
1200 Wooded Acres Dr.                Fax:   (254)741-5777
Waco, Texas  76710
	

 


-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf Of Steve Huff
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 12:49 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Removing old kernels


On Jun 3, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:

> I have the following kernels on my /boot:
>
> 2.6.18-128.1.6
> 2.6.18-92.1.18
> 2.6.18-92.1.22
>
> I'm low on /boot space and need to remove the oldest version.  It
> appears that I cannot use yum to remove since all of the versions are
> the same (only the release is different).  I believe that I can use  
> rpm
> to remove the old version, but I also need to remove them from the
> grub.conf.   Any other considerations and/or methods?


you can indeed use yum to remove them; why would you think you could  
not?

$ sudo yum remove kernel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 kernel- 
devel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 kernel-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 kernel- 
devel-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5  kernel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 kernel- 
devel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5

-steve

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