You are better off using apt (or dpkg) to remove the packages, eg; m...@bender:~$ sudo apt-get remove linux-headers-2.6.31-14 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: linux-headers-2.6.31-14 linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic-pae 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 90.8MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 240067 files and directories currently installed.) Removing linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic-pae ... Removing linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic ... dpkg: warning: while removing linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic, directory '/lib/modules/2.6.31-14-generic' not empty so not removed. Removing linux-headers-2.6.31-14 ...
On 9 February 2010 14:07, Voytek Eymont <[email protected]> wrote: > > my centos system just run out of space on /boot: > > # df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 > 101793144 28730252 67892104 30% / > /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 98747 92263 1385 99% /boot > none 1168044 0 1168044 0% /dev/shm > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 > 1064312 34180 976068 4% /tmp > > > if I delete older versions of init-rd*, vmlinuz*, do I need to do anything > else after deleteting the older files ? > > -- > Voytek > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
