I've just discovered that my /boot partition on a 7.3 box is full and I don't know what to do.

I want delete some stuff, but don't know what I can delete. The first thing that comes to mind is removing old kernels:

# existing kernels
15> rpm -qa 'kernel*'
kernel-2.4.7-10
kernel-2.4.20-18.7
kernel-ibcs-2.2.16-22
kernel-headers-2.4.9-34
kernel-smp-2.4.7-10
kernel-doc-2.4.20-18.7
kernelcfg-0.6-9
kernel-bigmem-2.4.20-18.7
kernel-source-2.4.20-18.7
kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.27-10
kernel-smp-2.4.20-18.7
kernel-enterprise-2.4.7-10

# current kernel
16> uname -r
2.4.7-10enterprise

I don't know what I can or can't delete, or how.

Any feedback would be appreciated. Also, what else can I think of getting rid of?

Rgs
Zeb
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df, post results

> df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 16943148 12836348 3246120 80% /
/dev/sda1 23302 22261 0 100% /boot
none 127544 0 127544 0% /dev/shm

kernel source is not in /boot.
cd /boot
du -s *|sort -n
check the guys at the end - probably old kernel(s)

how on earth have you managed to install ALL of those kernels???? that's amazing! remoev all the ones you are not using (presumably all but one) if you're not sure which one you are using, check "uname" or look at the contents of /etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/grub.conf depending on which bootloader you use.

rpm -qa 'kernel*' does not show installed kernels, it shows rpms (which are taking up room on /). Have you built a kernel?
My set or rpms to build a kernel is
kernel-2.4.18.....
kernel-headers-2.4.18....
kernel-source-2.4.18......

yes it does.

acid_kewpie, how do I remove the ones I'm not using?

rpm -e kernel-ibcs-2.2.16-22

etc... FYI my /boot is currently using about 3.5mb....

apologies - i always build custom kernels and keep them under /

Now, I free'd a couple of meg under /boot by removing old kernels