On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 17:23, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > I have 4 kernels in /boot, leaving on 20MB which is not enough for the > next one. > > I had installonly_limit= set at 5, as there were some kernel problems. > After I got the error that there was not enough room for another kernel, > I set installonly_limit= to 3 and did the update with --exclude=kernel* > > That worked to update everything else, but not remove the oldest kernel. > > How can I remove the oldest kernel to make room for the new one? > yum remove kernel-3.10.0-862.2.3.el7.x86_64 # or whatever the name is. For the YOLO approach yum remove $( rpm -q kernel | sort -n | head -n 2 ) That should work currently (though a safer method might be done).. I am not sure if it will correctly deal with kernel-3.10.0-1234.5.6.el7.x86_64 someday > thanks > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Stephen J Smoogen.