On 28 Aug 2023 at 18:37, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
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Subject: /usr/lib/modules cleanup?
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> Hi All,
>
> Fedora 38
>
> I got stuff all the way back to fc31.
>
> Can I delete all the non fc38 directories?
>
Can't say sure, but what I have done on my machines.
I generally use /lib/modules that is link t /usr/lib/modules.
Generally found that only 3 of the directories are actually valid
linked to the 3 latest kernels. The other ones are generally much
smaller and just left offer stuff that somehow stopped the
automatic removal from working.
Have a script cleanmodules2
#!/bin/bash
x=$(du . -d 1 | sort -n|grep -v "[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]" | cut -s
-f2 -d/)
for a in $x; do
echo "$a";
rm ./"$a"/* -f -r;
rmdir "$a";
done
But would recommend running it without the rm and rmdir lines to
make sure it isn't going to remove anything that is valid first.
Example of results I get. Current directory is already clean so
nothing removed.
du . -d 1 | sort -n
128640 ./6.4.11-100.fc37.x86_64
128652 ./6.4.12-100.fc37.x86_64
128668 ./6.4.10-100.fc37.x86_64
385968 .
Generally old directories would have sizes smaller that 6 digits,
grep -v "[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]" filters out all directories
with 6 digits or more for size.
cut -s elimanates the last line that doesn't have a second field after
the /
The loop then processes each of the resulting directories to remove
the files and then remove directory.
That has worked for me, but you setup might be different.
Might be way to validate against kernel files in /boot or entries in
/boot/local/entries but this works for me.
getting the ones to keep
ls -1 /boot | grep vmlinuz | grep -v rescue |cut -b9-100
or
ls -1 /boot/loader/entries/ | grep x86_64 | cut -f2,3 -d- | sed
's/.conf//g'
Both give me
6.4.10-100.fc37.x86_64
6.4.11-100.fc37.x86_64
6.4.12-100.fc37.x86_64
Would have to think about how to have it delete everything but
thoses??
Good Luck. Perhaps someone else has a better process.
> Many thanks,
> -T
>
>
> # cd /usr/lib/modules
> # ls
> 5.14.16-201.fc34.x86_64
> 5.18.10-200.fc36.x86_64
> 6.2.9-200.fc37.x86_64
> 5.14.16-301.fc35.x86_64
> 5.5.17-200.fc31.x86_64
> 6.3.11-200.fc38.x86_64
> 5.14.18-300.fc35.x86_64
> 5.6.6-200.fc31.x86_64
> 6.3.12-100.fc37.x86_64
> 5.14.9-200.fc34.x86_64
> 5.6.7-200.fc31.x86_64
> 6.3.12-200.fc38.x86_64
> 5.15.10-200.fc35.x86_64
> 6.0.11-300.fc37.x86_64
> 6.3.7-100.fc37.x86_64
> 5.15.16-200.fc35.x86_64
> 6.0.12-200.fc36.x86_64
> 6.3.8-100.fc37.x86_64
> 5.15.18-200.fc35.x86_64
> 6.2.10-200.fc37.x86_64
> 6.4.10-200.fc38.x86_64
> 5.15.4-201.fc35.x86_64
> 6.2.12-200.fc37.x86_64
> 6.4.11-200.fc38.x86_64
> 5.15.6-200.fc35.x86_64
> 6.2.13-200.fc37.x86_64
> 6.4.12-200.fc38.x86_64
> 5.16.8-200.fc35.x86_64
> 6.2.15-200.fc37.x86_64
>
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