Bug 799326 - remove old kernels after new ones have started succesfully
Summary: remove old kernels after new ones have started succesfully
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Seth Vidal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-03-02 13:56 UTC by Alexander van Loon
Modified: 2014-01-21 23:21 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-03-02 18:49:41 UTC
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Description Alexander van Loon 2012-03-02 13:56:06 UTC
Description of problem:

Currently on my Fedora 16 systems, when kernel updates are installed – which has been happening quite often because Fedora updates it so frequently – the old kernels remain on the system and are not removed. As a consequence disk space is wasted and the grub menu gets quite crowded. So I propose that once a new kernel has been started successfully the old kernel will be removed automatically.

Comment 1 Volker Sobek 2012-03-02 14:36:30 UTC
Just to clarify: The default is to keep three kernels, older ones are removed automatically. Do you have more than 3 kernels installed at a time?

Comment 2 Josh Boyer 2012-03-02 16:54:44 UTC
As Frank said, this should already be happening unless you've modified something locally.

Either way, this isn't a kernel bug.  It should be reported against yum most likely.

Comment 3 Alexander van Loon 2012-03-02 18:49:41 UTC
No, I never had more than three kernels installed at the same time and never modified anything. I wasn't aware it worked like that, thank you for explaining. Closing my bug.


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