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diff --git a/content/en/blog/miscellaneous/clean-old-centos-kernels.md b/content/en/blog/miscellaneous/clean-old-centos-kernels.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eb49269 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/en/blog/miscellaneous/clean-old-centos-kernels.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- +title: "Clean old centos kernels" +linkTitle: "Clean old centos kernels" +date: 2016-02-03 +description: > + Clean old centos kernels +--- + +There is a setting in `/etc/yum.conf` that does exactly that : `installonly_limit=`. The value of this setting is the number of older kernels that are kept when a new kernel is installed by yum. If the number of installed kernels becomes greater than this, the oldest one gets removed at the same time a new one is installed. + +This cleaning can also be done manually with a command that belongs to the yum-utils package : `package-cleanup –oldkernels –count=2` |