On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Dexter Haslem <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 12/20/2010 2:15 AM, Rishi Agrawal wrote: > >> >> Thanks a ton ... I will try it. >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Mulyadi Santosa >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi Rishi.... >> >> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 13:48, Rishi Agrawal >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > Hi All, >> > >> > I installed the kernel 2.6.36 into my Fedora 12 system. >> > >> > I am now low on disk space. >> > >> > [r...@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 <http://the-hydra.blogspot.com> >> training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com >> <http://mulyaditraining.blogspot.com> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Rishi Agrawal >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Kernelnewbies mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >> > > Hi Rishi, > > One other thing that might help is not compiling a debug build if you dont > need it. Debug objects are much bigger of course. If you're ending up at > 4.4GB it sounds like a build with debugging on. > > -- > -Dexter Haslem > yes I have some debugging options set. The current usage (after make clean and modules_prepare ) is around 867M. Thanks a lot... -- Regards, Rishi Agrawal
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