On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:55:10 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > Partial "df" output before unmerging a bunch of kernels > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 11726996 7325372 4401624 63% / > > > Partial "df" output after unmerging a bunch of kernels > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 11726996 4183616 7543380 36% / > > Yes folks, 3.14 gigs. Having gotten rather tired of doing this > manually... again...
At around 300MB per kernel, that's ten excess kernels, so you can't be doing it that often. Once you're happy with the current kernel, you only need "emerge -P gentoo-sources" to remove the rest. I use a script that removes all but the last two, and also cleans out /lib/modules and /boot. > I went into /etc/portage/package.mask and added > > >sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5 > > It won't hurt me now, but is there anything that might depend on newer > kernels? It's assumed I'll upgrade when required by a security alert. > Other than that, how long can I get away between kernel upgrades? As long as you like, some people are still running 2.4 kernels! As long as you don't add hardware supported only by a newer kernel, your system will work exactly the same in six months as it does now, although you should bear in mind that -r updates are generally problem fixes. I usually read the Changelog when a new kernel is released and then decide whether it's worth installing. There's no point in forcing a reboot when the old kernel works for me. -- Neil Bothwick Reality is for people who can't handle Star Trek
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