On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 14:38 -0800, Todd Cary wrote: > Bill - > > Thank you! My boot partition does not have any space available. Now > there are what appears to be many files in there that are not needed, > *but* with my sparse knowledge, I am reluctant to start erasing them. > > Here is a sample: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1310809 Mar 17 2008 > initrd-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL.img > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1296959 Mar 17 2008 > initrd-2.6.9-67.0.7.ELsmp.img > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1310005 Dec 18 2007 initrd-2.6.9-67.EL.img > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1296326 Dec 18 2007 initrd-2.6.9-67.ELsmp.img > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 759989 Feb 3 2008 > System.map-2.6.9-67.0.4.EL > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 776963 Feb 3 2008 > System.map-2.6.9-67.0.4.ELsmp > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 760171 Mar 15 2008 > System.map-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 777145 Mar 15 2008 > System.map-2.6.9-67.0.7.ELsmp > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 759989 Nov 16 2007 System.map-2.6.9-67.EL > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 776963 Nov 16 2007 System.map-2.6.9-67.ELsmp > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1518757 Feb 3 2008 vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.0.4.EL > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1458782 Feb 3 2008 > vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.0.4.ELsmp > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1518936 Mar 15 2008 vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1459052 Mar 15 2008 > vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.0.7.ELsmp > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1518693 Nov 16 2007 vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.EL > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1458902 Nov 16 2007 vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.ELsmp > > I would assume that the older vmlinuz files can be removed as well as > the other old files. ---- the proper way to handle the removal is via rpm rpm -e kernel-2.6.9-67.EL kernel-2.6.9-67.ELsmp Craig