Ok, first off, repartitioning isn't really all that bad, at least in my experience... you just get a partition magic 4.0 or higher (for ext2, at least... I doubt even the latest version has support for the more esoteric filesystems... but you probably don't have to worry about that) boot disk, boot off of that, tell it to resize the partition, go out, see a movie with friends, and by the time you get back, hopefully it's done... I haven't tried any of the open-source Linux tools for that, but that doesn't mean they won't work just as well. As for the kernel images, well, I'm a fan of compiling your own kernel so you don't need any of them, but that isn't for everybody, I know, so yes, you can safely delete the uncompressed versions. And unless you have a multiprocessor machine, the smp kernels aren't doing you any good either. If you delete anything referred to in lilo.conf, make sure to re-run lilo (preferably taking that part out or pointing it somewhere else), or else you probably won't be able to boot. Beyond that, I'm not familiar with Redhat and their packaging system to say what kind of stuff you'd be able to safely delete without interfering with the upgrade process... intuitively, I'd say something non-essential that you're sure is going to be replaced anyway (kde and gnome come to mind), but again, don't listen to me; I don't know what I'm talking about. On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
I tried to upgrade to RedHat 7.1 tonight, and I found that I do not have enough disk space on /. So I have 3 options:
1. Fresh install 2. Repartition 3. Clean up
As much as I'd like to repartition, I'm not sure enough of myself to plow into that, although I'd like to hear what tricks there might be that would make it easy (easier?) to do.
One thing I've noticed is that I seem to have extra kernels around, but I thought I'd see if there is any reason I need to keep them before I whack them. Here's what I have:
ls -l vm* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1621659 Aug 22 2000 vmlinux-2.2.16-22 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1739279 Aug 22 2000 vmlinux-2.2.16-22smp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Apr 16 22:51 vmlinuz ->vmlinuz-2.2.16-22smp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 627379 Aug 22 2000 vmlinuz-2.2.16-22 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 654459 Aug 22 2000 vmlinuz-2.2.16-22smp
My lilo has:
cat /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/sda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 default=linux message=/boot/message linear
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22smp label=linux initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.16-22smp.img read-only root=/dev/sda1
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22 label=linux-up initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.16-22.img read-only root=/dev/sda1
So, I can get of the uncompressed kernel images, right?
BTW, when considering my options for repartitioning, I do have a DAT drive for backup/restore ops.
Thanks, Bill
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