At Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:37:56 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
> Systems Programmer MCP, MCP+I, MCSE & RHCE
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>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Steve Huff
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 12:49 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: 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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