Re: clean-up of old kernel fragments.

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On Oct 22, 2024, at 20:42, home user via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> (f-40; gnome; stand-alone dual-boot workstation; kernel 6.11.3)
> 
> Selected command output...
> 
> -bash.2[~]: rpm -qa kernel
> kernel-6.10.12-200.fc40.x86_64
> kernel-6.11.3-200.fc40.x86_64
> -bash.3[~]:
> 
> -bash.3[~]: rpm -qa kernel-core
> kernel-core-6.10.12-200.fc40.x86_64
> kernel-core-6.11.3-200.fc40.x86_64
> -bash.4[~]:
> 
> -bash.4[~]: ls -l /boot
> total 297300
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root   275360 Sep 29 18:00 config-6.10.12-100.fc39.x86_64
> 
> -rw-------. 1 root root 77162500 Oct 10 10:12 initramfs-6.10.12-100.fc39.x86_64.img
> 
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root   165784 Oct 10 10:12 symvers-6.10.12-100.fc39.x86_64.xz
> 
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  9116365 Sep 29 18:00 System.map-6.10.12-100.fc39.x86_64
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 15903080 Sep 29 18:00 vmlinuz-6.10.12-100.fc39.x86_64
> 
> -bash.5[~]:
> 
> -bash.11[~]: ls -l /boot/loader/entries
> total 8
> 
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 540 Oct 10 10:11 70857e3fb05849139515e66a3fdc6b38-6.10.12-100.fc39.x86_64.conf
> 
> -bash.12[~]:
> 
> My grub menu has 3 Fedora entries (two f-40, one f-39).  There should only be 2: the f-40 entries.  What I listed above from the "ls" commands are what appear to be the extra files.  I've deleted from the output entries for the f-40 kernels and the memtest entries.  The "rpm" output is for your information.
> 
> The questions:
> 1. Am I correct in assuming that I get rid of the extra files listed above?
> 2. If yes, should I do that by using the "rm" command, or would it be better to do it another way?  If another way, how?  (Would using the "rm" command mess up a database?)
> 3. What else (if anything) should I do to complete this clean-up properly?

Just to double check, is there a directory in /boot/efi named after your Machine ID (what’s in /etc/machine-id) with kernels and BLSCFG entries?

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Jonathan Billings
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