Low on disk space after compiling new kernel.

[Rishi Agrawal]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Dexter Haslem <dexter.haslem at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 12/20/2010 2:15 AM, Rishi Agrawal wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks a ton ... I will try it.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Mulyadi Santosa
>> <mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com <mailto:mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hi Rishi....
>>
>>    On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 13:48, Rishi Agrawal
>>    <rishi.b.agrawal at gmail.com <mailto: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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>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Rishi Agrawal
>>
>>
>>
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>
> Hi Rishi,
>
> One other thing that might help is not compiling a debug build if you dont
> need it. Debug objects are much bigger of course. If you're ending up at
> 4.4GB it sounds like a build with debugging on.
>
> --
> -Dexter Haslem
>

yes I have some debugging options set.

The current usage (after make clean and modules_prepare ) is around 867M.

Thanks a lot...


-- 
Regards,
Rishi Agrawal
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