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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org