[Resolved] Re: [Gutsy] Clean out old kernel files

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Thu Apr 24 17:01:56 UTC 2008


On 04/23/2008 06:35 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 04/22/2008 01:51 PM, NoOp wrote:
>> On one of my systems I have tons of left over 2.6.20-15/16 feisty kernel
>> files left over that I'd like to clean up. Apparently, some time ago,
>> when updating from feisty-->gutsy the kernels were removed but they
>> didn't purge the files in:
>> 
>> /var/lib/dpkg/info/
>> /usr/shar/doc/
>> /lib/firmware/
>> /lib/modules/
>> etc.
>> 
>> I suppose that I could probably reinstall the kernels and then purge,
>> but wonder if there is any other way to do this (also besides going
>> through each directory and deleting)? Any suggestions?
>> 

Resolved:

I simply did:

gksu gnome-search-tool

Searched for 2.6.20.15 and 2.6.20.16 from / and just deleted the files &
folders.





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