how to increase /root space

[Tim Wunder]

On Saturday 30 August 2003 1:17 pm, someone claiming to be Mike Reinehr wrote:
> There's your trouble. You have the files associated with five (5) different
> kernels in your boot partition:
>
>   2.4.9
>   2.4.7-10
>   2.4.18-19.7.x
>   2.4.18-24.7.x
>   2.4.18-26.7.x
>   2.4.18-27.7.x
>
> It appears that 2.4.18-27.7.x is the last and current kernel, the one you
> are booting. It that's the case you can free up a lot of space by deleting
> the unused kernel image files. (Just make sure that your lilo or grub
> configurations reflect the correct kernel image or you won't be able to
> reboot.)
<snip>
Since he installed all these kernels via up2date (and consequently, rpm), he 
shouldn't just start rm'ing things. If he uses rpm to remove them, via 'rpm 
-e', rpm should take care of the necessary grub (or lilo, if RHL 7.x uses 
that instead of grub) modifications. 

Regards, 
Tim

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