Re: Removing redundant kernels
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 06:40:09PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (03/11/06 10:06), Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > You'd be well advised to use the package management system to remove the
> > > kernels. Personally, I use aptitude. Having checked which is your
> > > running kernel, go into aptitude, and mark for removal those you want
> > > rid of. If you mark the with '_' both the package and the configuration
> > > files are purged.
> > >
> >
> > I did this on my server using aptitude and it didn't work. I '_' purged
> > two kernels that had been install with aptitude but it left the actual
> > kernels and initrds and configs in /boot. I had to rm them manually.
> >
> > hunh. I better look into that more as I know that's not proper behavior.
>
> That's not something I've ever experienced. You didn't install these
> kernels manually using 'dpkg -i' by any chance?
Would that matter? Aptitude, synaptic, apt-get ... eventually call dpkg
anyway. IOW I think its dpkg that knows about the config files.
--
Chris.
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