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luugin
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 Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 5:48 am Post subject: Removing kernel sources |
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After a few months of doing "emerge -u world" i've now got several kernel sources (gentoo-sources) taking up unnecessary space. My question is, is it safe to just manually delete the directories of the kernels i am not using?
| Code: | $ du -sh /usr/src/*
0 /usr/src/linux
231M /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-gentoo-r5
230M /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-gentoo-r7
195M /usr/src/linux-2.4.25-gentoo
195M /usr/src/linux-2.4.25-gentoo-r1
195M /usr/src/linux-2.4.25-gentoo-r2
196M /usr/src/linux-2.4.25-gentoo-r3
196M /usr/src/linux-2.4.26-gentoo-r3
196M /usr/src/linux-2.4.26-gentoo-r5 |
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koara
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 5:58 am Post subject: Re: Removing kernel sources |
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Just run 'qpkg -I -v sys-kernel' to see what kernel sources you have installed. Then choose the package names from that list which you wish to remove by using 'emerge -C nameofkernel'.
| luugin wrote: | After a few months of doing "emerge -u world" i've now got several kernel sources (gentoo-sources) taking up unnecessary space. My question is, is it safe to just manually delete the directories of the kernels i am not using?
| Code: | $ du -sh /usr/src/*
0 /usr/src/linux
231M /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-gentoo-r5
230M /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-gentoo-r7
195M /usr/src/linux-2.4.25-gentoo
195M /usr/src/linux-2.4.25-gentoo-r1
195M /usr/src/linux-2.4.25-gentoo-r2
196M /usr/src/linux-2.4.25-gentoo-r3
196M /usr/src/linux-2.4.26-gentoo-r3
196M /usr/src/linux-2.4.26-gentoo-r5 |
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Jake
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 6:05 am Post subject: |
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| If emerge -C doesn't delete the source, it's safe to rm -rf it. You'll probably also want to remove the old modules from /lib/modules. |
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manywele
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 6:52 am Post subject: |
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| And don't forget to remove old source tarballs from /usr/portage/distfiles. Those can build up and take up a lot of space. |
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guitou
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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emerge -Cp gentoo-sources
emerge -C =gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5 gentoo-sources-2.4.22...
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This is ther proper way to unmerge old kernel sources.
And you can do it even after having removed sources and modules (unmerge will just complain about missing files).
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luugin
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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Ok thanx. It's nice to know the 'proper' way of doing things  |
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guitou
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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Hmmm... well, probably the most proper way 
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