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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Accumulating kernels
From:       Basil Chupin <blchupin () iinet ! net ! au>
Date:       2014-07-02 7:07:46
Message-ID: 53B3AFC2.7010108 () iinet ! net ! au
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On 30/06/14 05:42, Anton Aylward wrote:
> On 06/29/2014 03:12 PM, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
>> On 06/29/2014 08:16 AM, Anton Aylward pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
>>> In /boot I have
>>>
>>> /boot/initrd-3.11.10-11-desktop
>>> /boot/initrd-3.11.10-17-desktop
>>> /boot/initrd-3.11.10-71.gfba7c1f-desktop
>>> /boot/initrd-3.11.10-72.g744d90f-desktop
>>> /boot/initrd-3.11.10-73.g2829293-desktop
>>> /boot/initrd-3.11.10-74.g7d34bef-desktop
>>> /boot/initrd-3.11.10-75.ge012def-default
>>> /boot/initrd-3.11.10-75.ge012def-desktop
>>> /boot/initrd-3.11.10-76.g7c0c2b5-default
>>> /boot/initrd-3.11.10-76.g7c0c2b5-desktop
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think I should have all those.
>>>
>>> In /etc/zypp/zypp.conf I have
>>>
>>> multiversion = provides:multiversion(kernel)
>>> multiversion.kernels = latest,latest-1,running
>>>
>>> I'm running 3.11.10-75.ge012def-desktop
>>>
>>> Certainly 10-11 and 10-17 should be gone.
>>>
>>> I've run 'purge-kernels' and it hasn't cleaned them out.
>>>
>>>
>>> What's up?
>>>
>> It's a side effect of using TumbleWeed, you will need to remove the
>> extra kernels by hand.
>>
>>
> I'm not using Tumbleweed.

I don't use TW either and what I do is first backup '/boot' to 
'/boot-backup' then (using mc, of course) delete the other kernel(s) and 
associated files (there are 8 files in total per kernel version) and 
then execute 'grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg'. Works a treat.

BC

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