On Friday 18 April 2008 8:54:02 am Mark Stodola wrote: > Larry, > > You can just delete the entries from grub.conf, no commands need to be > run after that. > You also might be interested in the installonlyn (I think that is the > name) yum plugin. It lets you limit how many old kernels to keep > installed. > > Cheers, > Mark > > P. Larry Nelson wrote: > > Here's what I assume to be a simple grub question.... > > > > On one of my systems, /boot is getting quite full with all the > > kernel updates and I'd like to delete most of the old ones, > > keeping a couple of the most recent ones. Does one then need > > to delete the corresponding lines for the deleted kernels in > > grub.conf? > > > > Does anything have to be done after that so grub is aware, like > > one had to do with the old lilo.conf, i.e., run lilo after any > > changes that were made? > > > > Thanks! > > - Larry
It's been my experience that the entries in grub.conf get automatically removed as long as you use rpm (or yum) to remove the old kernels. I don't know at what release this started, but it has been true for a long time now. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey Anderson | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Office: 50A-5104E | Mailstop 50A-5101 Phone: 510 486-4208 | Fax: 510 486-6808
