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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:33:43 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: |
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>>>> At around 300MB per kernel, that's ten excess kernels, so you can't |
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>>>> be doing it that often. Once you're happy with the current kernel, |
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>>>> you only need "emerge -P gentoo-sources" to remove the rest. I use |
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>>>> a script that removes all but the last two, and also cleans |
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>>>> out /lib/modules and /boot. |
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>>> Neil, any chance we could get that script? |
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>> Provided you have gentoolkit something as simple as this works: |
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>> # emerge -Cva $(equery -q list gentoo-sources | head -n -2) |
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> That only cleans out /usr/src, it's slightly different to what I use |
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> (which rm's the directories first to speed things up) but does basically |
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> the same. You also need to clear out /lib/modules and /boot with |
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> Here's the script I use, which is guaranteed to work when it doesn't |
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> fail. When it does break, you can keep the pieces. |
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> #!/bin/bash |
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> # clean /lib/modules |
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> cd /lib/modules |
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> ls -1rt | head -n -2 | xargs --no-run-if-empty rm -fr |
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> |
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> # clean /boot |
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> grep --quiet /boot /etc/fstab && mount /boot -o remount,rw |
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> cd /boot |
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> ls -1rt config-* | head -n -2 | while read f; do |
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> bzip2 -9 $f |
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> mv $f.bz2 oldconfigs/ |
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> done |
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> ls -1rt System.map-* | head -n -2 | xargs --no-run-if-empty rm -f |
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> if [ -f vmlinux ]; then |
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> ls -1rt vmlinux-* | head -n -2 | xargs --no-run-if-empty rm -f |
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> else |
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> ls -1rt vmlinuz-* | head -n -2 | xargs --no-run-if-empty rm -f |
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> fi |
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> |
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> # clean /usr/src |
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> cd /usr/src |
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> ls -1drt linux-* | head -n -2 | xargs --no-run-if-empty rm -fr |
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> equery --quiet --nocolor list --duplicates gentoo-sources | awk '{print $1}' | head -n -2 | xargs --no-run-if-empty emerge --unmerge &>/dev/null |
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> grep --quiet /boot /etc/fstab && mount /boot -o remount,ro |
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> # END |
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> The vmlinuz/vmlinux stuff is because I have a PPC system too, which calls the kernel vmlinux. |
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Thanks Neil. |
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Tony |
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little |
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temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. |
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-- Benjamin Franklin |
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