Date:  Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:12:18 -0500
From:  Richard Siddall <cobalt (at mark) elirion.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:14832] Re: Clearing /boot
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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Colin Jack wrote:
> Bit of a noob question (sorry) ...
> 
> My /boot partition is 90% full and needs clearing down.
> 
> Am I able to delete these (apart from the latest):
[snip]
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  754505 Jun 26  2007 System.map-2.6.9-55.0.2.EL
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  771374 Jun 26  2007 System.map-2.6.9-55.0.2.ELsmp
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  754404 May  2  2007 System.map-2.6.9-55.EL
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  771273 May  2  2007 System.map-2.6.9-55.ELsmp
[snip]

Colin,

It looks like you have a bunch of System.map files that are not owned by 
any of the kernels you have installed.  Try doing a "rpm -qf /boot/*" 
and see if some of the files come up "not owned by any package".

You may also want to do "rpm -qa kernel\*".  (The set of files you have 
make me think that perhaps someone has been deleting kernel files 
without uninstalling the corresponding RPM.)

Regards,

	Richard Siddall