Took over an older system and found that the /boot
partition was 90% full.
After some searching on the net I found that there are older kernels installed that's taking up disk space.
Doing rpm -qa | grep ^kernel | sort
shows:
kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL
kernel-2.6.9-67.0.20.EL
kernel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL
kernel-2.6.9-67.EL
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.EL
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.22.EL
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.5.EL
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.8.EL
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.11.EL
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.9.EL
kernel-2.6.9-89.31.1.EL
kernel-2.6.9-89.33.1.EL
kernel-2.6.9-89.35.1.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.20.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.1.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.22.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.5.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.11.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.9.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.31.1.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.33.1.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.35.1.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-67.0.20.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-67.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-78.0.1.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-78.0.22.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-78.0.5.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-89.0.11.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-89.0.9.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-89.31.1.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-89.33.1.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-89.35.1.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-67.0.20.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-67.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.1.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.22.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.5.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.8.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.11.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.9.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.31.1.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.33.1.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.35.1.EL
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.20.EL
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.EL
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.1.EL
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.22.EL
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.5.EL
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.EL
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.11.EL
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.7.EL
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.9.EL
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.31.1.EL
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.33.1.EL
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.35.1.EL
kernel-utils-2.4-20.el4
It seems to be a consensus that I remove/uninstall the older kernels, but as a non-sysadmin I'm not quite sure how to do this. How do I know which ones to uninstall, and do I use rpm
to do it?
uname -a
shows:
Linux 2.6.9-89.0.11.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Sep 15 07:16:37 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux