Low on disk space after compiling new kernel.

[Rishi Agrawal]

Thanks a ton ... I will try it.


On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Mulyadi Santosa
<mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Rishi....
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 13:48, Rishi Agrawal <rishi.b.agrawal at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I installed the kernel 2.6.36 into my Fedora 12 system.
> >
> > I am now low on disk space.
> >
> > [root at rishi-desktop kernels]# du -sh linux-2.6.36/
> > 4.4G    linux-2.6.36/
>
> Hm, I think that's rather big....here after compilation (of course, my
> .config is likely different than yours), 2.6.36 takes approximately
> 1.7 GiB
> >
> > It shows that the new compiled kernel is taking around 4.4GB.
>
> Together with the object files during linking stage, I believe :)
>
> > I wanted to free some of the space occupied by the compiled code. I
> > understand that the /lib/modules/2.6.36 directory can't be deleted as it
> > contains the compiled modules.
>
> Yup...
>
> > I wanted to delete the files in /usr/src/kernel/2.6.36, without effecting
> my
> > newly installed kernel.
> >
> > -> Can I delete them?
>
> AFAIK, /lib/modules/<version>/build is symlink-ed to that source code
> dir, so IMHO don't delete it..
>
> > -> What is the best way to delete them, I want to keep the source files?
>
> I think the best way here is to do "make clean" and then followed by
> "make modules_prepare". That way, your kernel source dir is build with
> files enough to compile external modules whenever needed, but not too
> bloated
>
> --
> regards,
>
> Mulyadi Santosa
> Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
>
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>



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Regards,
Rishi Agrawal
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