Hi Rishi.... On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 13:48, Rishi Agrawal <rishi.b.agrawal@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@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 blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com