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