Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot has no space left.

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

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and don't forget to run "uname -a" to get your currently running kernel
version and make sure you don't delete that!

"IF" "uname -a" isn't the latest version you have in /boot, some more
investigation as to why will be needed.

BillK


On 1/7/22 04:29, Lee wrote:
> The OP should read the section of the Gentoo manual on kernel install
> to learn what files are installed where. Yea, but just rm the kernels
> and initramfs's from /boot and you're golden. FWIW, I usually only
> upgrade my kernel when it's a major revision.
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 12:39 PM Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
>     On 30/06/2022 19:23, Michael wrote:
>     > On Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:15:33 BST Guillermo wrote:
>     >> Hello,
>     >>
>     >> I still have the same problem, but the command worked fine.
>     > The command "emerge -a --depclean" will only remove uninstall
>     the kernel
>     > packages, but will not remove files from/usr/src/, or old kernel
>     images and
>     > files from/boot/.
>
>     As far as I'm aware, depclean only installs files it installed, so it
>     leaves quite a lot of garbage lying around from kernels, including
>     the
>     /usr/src/kernel-xx-xx-xx directory and various files involved in
>     making
>     your kernel, that you've modified.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Wol
>
>
>
> -- 
> Lee 😎 
> <ny6p01@gmail.com>

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