[CentOS] Removing old kernels

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:37:56 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> 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

rpm -e kernel-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5debug ...

(Make *sure* you are not actually running any of these kernels!).

Note: yum clean old-kernels keeps the last N kernels (I'm not sure what
N is and it is probably a config parameter somewhere).

> 
> 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 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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