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Re: What to do with multiple kernel images



Alex Samad wrote:
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 01:06:39AM -0500, gary turner wrote:
Through upgrades, etc., I've accumulated six kernel images.

gt@koko:~$ ls /boot
<snip>
Can I safely rm those I don't want to keep? Are there other directories and files that need to be included in the clean-up?
as suggested in other email [from Andrei Popescu] don't rm them, use aptitude purge, but I
would keep atleast 2 versions, incase a upgrade fails

Thanks, I ran purge on the four oldest.  Three of them reported an error:

rmdir: failed to remove `/lib/modules/2.6.22-3-486': Directory not empty
dpkg - warning: while removing linux-image-2.6.22-3-486, directory `/lib/modules/2.6.22-3-486' not empty so not removed.

koko:/lib/modules/2.6.22-3-486$ ls -al
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-08-15 05:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2008-08-15 05:26 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1303 2007-12-07 22:19 modules.seriomap
koko:/lib/modules/2.6.22-3-486$

Do these belong to a package, or would I simply rm them?

gary
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