[PLUG] boot filled

Tony Schlemmer aschlemm at comcast.net
Fri Feb 24 18:19:40 UTC 2017


On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 09:36 -0800, David wrote:
> On 02/24/2017 07:57 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> > 
> > The last time this happened Tomas told me what to do, but I did not
> > write
> > it down and my mind is a sieve.  What is the solution?  There are 9
> > archived images.  How do I safely throw out the older ones?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > -Denis
> Howdy.
> 
> You don't provide quite enough information, but I can get you close 
> enough that you should be able to figure it out from there.
> 
> If you have a RH based system, you will want to use yum to remove the
> oldest one or two kernel RPMs. I'd suggest starting with find out
> your current kernel release, and then listing which kernel images are
> installed:
> 
> $ uname -r # so you know what you can't remove
> $ rpm -qa | grep kernel-[2-4]
> $ sudo yum remove ${package name from above}
> 
> If you are using a Debian based system, it's similar:
> 
> $ uname -r # so you know what you can't remove
> $ dpkg -l linux-image* | grep ^i
> $ sudo apt-get remove ${package name from above}
> 
> You just want to be sure to leave your current running kernel and the
> next youngest version (IMO), and the rest can be removed to free up 
> space in /boot.
> 
> dafr
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I made the mistake one time of removing the active kernel under Ubuntu
so I had to create a DVD recovery disk. With Ubuntu I use the Synaptic
Package manager to uninstall old kernel images since I had a limited
about of space in my boot partition. I have a new laptop that I bought
in October so I have not had to delete any Kernels right now.

Tony




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