Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (508 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 10:04:54AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> 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?

Sure, kerneloops is not a required package at all, but it's also very
small and not causing size issues for you.

> # 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

You still can, just not with every single kernel module built for all
hardware on that same floppy.

thanks,

greg k-h
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