> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Siddall [mailto:cobalt (at mark) elirion.net]
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 3:12 PM
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:14832] Re: Clearing /boot
>
> 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
>
Thanks Richard,
Using Brian/Steffan's advice I cleared a pile of old kernels.
I then used your guide to get rid of some orphan bits:
file /boot/grub is not owned by any package
file /boot/initrd-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.img is not owned by any package
file /boot/initrd-2.6.9-67.0.22.ELsmp.img is not owned by any package
file /boot/initrd-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL.img is not owned by any package
file /boot/initrd-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.img is not owned by any package
file /boot/initrd-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp.img is not owned by any package
file /boot/lost+found is not owned by any package
file /boot/map is not owned by any package
All clean now - I am not a fiddler, so it was Yum that left this stuff lying about :)
Appreciate the help.
Colin
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