On Tuesday 09 February 2010 12:05:02 [email protected] wrote: > 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 ?
All good except centos does not use the apt tools. You can use the rpm tools eg rpm -qf /boot/this-or-that and rpm -e this-or-that You can also use the <menu>->add/remove to do admin James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
