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Re: Clean "boot" directory from old updates [message #38410 is a reply to message #38409]

Thu, 17 December 2009 03:21

kir
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Location: Moscow, Russia

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Since you are on an RPM-based system, the correct way is to remove RPMS, not files. Check the output of

rpm -qa ovzkernel\*

and then run rpm -e on some older kernels. Be careful!

Alternatively, you can find out which package a file belongs to, for example:

rpm -qf /boot/vmlinux-2.6.18-128.2.1.el5.028stab064.4

and then again run rpm -e on such packages.

Also, in case it's CentOS 5 AFAIR yum should take care of removing the old kernels. There is probably a setting in /etc/yum.conf which tells how many older kernels to keep -- you can lower that value to say 2 or 3 in case it's higher.

Kir Kolyshkin

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