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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 3 Dec 2021 23:26:29 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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>> I was cleaning out my /boot directory. It's on its own partition and I |
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>> remove outdated kernels and configs etc every once in a while. I was |
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>> noticing that I have two grub directories. Based on time stamps, I |
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>> think I can delete the plain grub directory and I'm pretty much certain |
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>> grub2 is the current and active grub directory. Is it safe to remove |
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>> the old grub directory? Nothing in it has been touched that the time |
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>> stamps show in a long while. The grub2 directory was when I did my last |
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>> kernel update. |
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>> I just want to be certain before I remove the directory. More info |
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>> below. |
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> Yes, but to be on the safe side, rename it rather than removing it. GRUB |
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> will look in either /boot/grub or /boot/grub2, from your setup it looks |
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> like it goes for grub2 first. |
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That's a good idea. I used equery f grub to see what grub installed |
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where but it showed nothing at all for /boot. I figure grub-install |
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puts all the needed files in /boot but I wasn't sure how to get it to |
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list where it put them. The file isn't a script so I can't just peek |
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into the file and see what it does. |
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While I'm at it. When the grub package upgrades, should I reinstall |
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with grub-install to update what is on the drive or is it safe to just |
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leave it as is? I seem to recall a upgrade to grub a while back. It |
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just dawned on me that while the package is updated, what is installed |
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on the hard drive boot part with grub-install is still the original from |
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ages ago when I first built this rig. Thoughts?? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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