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.
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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
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