Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (508 mails)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2010/12/09 13:04 (GMT+0200) Dave Plater composed:

> >  Felix Miata wrote:

> > >  On a Piii system with last dup @ M1 ~6 weeks ago, I did zypper dup to M4,
> > >  then dup to current Factory. When I started, / freespace was @ 88% (1
> > >  installed kernel). It's now at 99% (4837465 1k blocks, available 84783, 23
> > >  installed kernels), even after zypper clean and emptying /tmp. What, besides
> > >  kernel files, is gobbling all that space?

> AFAIR it goes like this :
> a) Check which unwanted kernel stuff is installed with rpm -qa | grep kernel
> b) Use carefully, see http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492251
> , zypper rm "kernel*<= the version strings of the kernel stuff you want
> to remove"
> You need the quotes and check what zypper wants to remove carefully
> because the last time I did this it still didn't work as expected, you
> may have to play around a bit.

# rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-desktop-2.6.37-10.1.i586
kernel-firmware-20100617-4.2.noarch
kerneloops-0.12-38.3.i586
nfs-kernel-server-1.2.3-3.1.i586

Dare anyone remove kerneloops or kernel-firmware?

# df /
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda10             4837465   4249030    342643  93% /

So, it appears each installed kernel consumes about 3% of a 4.8G partition, 
or about 144M. ISTR it used to be possible to boot Linux from a 144k floppy. O_O

Still, M4+ appears to be about 240M bigger than M1. Is this expected? Did a 
whole bunch of new deps and/or recommends get pulled in? Are update-test* 
packages new since M1?
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Felix Miata  ***  http://fm.no-ip.com/
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