Hi Rishi.... On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 13:48, Rishi Agrawal <rishi.b.agrawal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > I installed the kernel 2.6.36 into my Fedora 12 system. > > I am now low on disk space. > > [root@rishi-desktop kernels]# du -sh linux-2.6.36/ > 4.4G linux-2.6.36/ Hm, I think that's rather big....here after compilation (of course, my .config is likely different than yours), 2.6.36 takes approximately 1.7 GiB > > It shows that the new compiled kernel is taking around 4.4GB. Together with the object files during linking stage, I believe :) > I wanted to free some of the space occupied by the compiled code. I > understand that the /lib/modules/2.6.36 directory can't be deleted as it > contains the compiled modules. Yup... > I wanted to delete the files in /usr/src/kernel/2.6.36, without effecting my > newly installed kernel. > > -> Can I delete them? AFAIK, /lib/modules/<version>/build is symlink-ed to that source code dir, so IMHO don't delete it.. > -> What is the best way to delete them, I want to keep the source files? I think the best way here is to do "make clean" and then followed by "make modules_prepare". That way, your kernel source dir is build with files enough to compile external modules whenever needed, but not too bloated -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
