Hey folks, during my latest ZYPPER UP this morning I ran out of space on my /boot partition. It looks like I have several versions of the Gnome desktop hosted in this location - does anyone have a suggestion to the steps for removing the old versions?

westchstr01:/boot # ls -l
total 139588
-rw------- 1 root root 512 Oct 31 2012 backup_mbr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Jun 1 2013 boot -> .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1484 Feb 26 2013 boot.readme
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 137500 May 25 2013 config-3.7.10-1.11-desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 137500 Jun 7 2013 config-3.7.10-1.16-desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 137578 Dec 5 06:23 config-3.7.10-1.24-desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 13 21:19 do_purge_kernels
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 1 2013 grub
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 1024 Oct 10 05:05 grub2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jun 1 2013 grub2-efi -> grub2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Jan 13 21:19 initrd -> initrd-3.7.10-1.24-desktop
-rw------- 1 root root 33386825 Oct 10 05:04 initrd-3.7.10-1.11-desktop
-rw------- 1 root root 33386429 Oct 10 05:05 initrd-3.7.10-1.16-desktop
-rw------- 1 root root 29028352 Jan 13 21:20 initrd-3.7.10-1.24-desktop
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Oct 31 2012 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 621056 Jul 27 09:54 message
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 693372 May 25 2013 symtypes-3.7.10-1.11-default.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 687888 May 25 2013 symtypes-3.7.10-1.11-desktop.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 687021 May 25 2013 symtypes-3.7.10-1.11-pae.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 669251 May 25 2013 symtypes-3.7.10-1.11-xen.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 693372 Jun 7 2013 symtypes-3.7.10-1.16-default.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 687888 Jun 7 2013 symtypes-3.7.10-1.16-desktop.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 687021 Jun 7 2013 symtypes-3.7.10-1.16-pae.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 669251 Jun 7 2013 symtypes-3.7.10-1.16-xen.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 239370 May 25 2013 symvers-3.7.10-1.11-desktop.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 239370 Jun 7 2013 symvers-3.7.10-1.16-desktop.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 239392 Dec 5 07:28 symvers-3.7.10-1.24-desktop.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 500 May 25 2013 sysctl.conf-3.7.10-1.11-desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 500 Jun 7 2013 sysctl.conf-3.7.10-1.16-desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 500 Dec 5 07:27 sysctl.conf-3.7.10-1.24-desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2006876 May 25 2013 System.map-3.7.10-1.11-desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2006876 Jun 7 2013 System.map-3.7.10-1.16-desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2007007 Dec 5 07:12 System.map-3.7.10-1.24-desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6326987 May 25 2013 vmlinux-3.7.10-1.11-desktop.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6326944 Jun 7 2013 vmlinux-3.7.10-1.16-desktop.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6326816 Dec 5 07:27 vmlinux-3.7.10-1.24-desktop.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jan 13 21:19 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.24-desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4957920 May 25 2013 vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.11-desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4957952 Jun 7 2013 vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.16-desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4957952 Dec 5 07:13 vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.24-desktop

I'm running:
Release 12.3 (Dartmouth) 32-bit
Kernel Linux 3.7.10-1.16-desktop
GNOME 3.6.2

Thanks!
Bill

there are three versions of kernel, 11, 16 and 24; symlinks point to version 24, but you are running the 16, i could delete all 11 files, as you don't use it (except safe-mode or similar)

rm initrd-3.7.10-1.11-desktop symtypes-3.7.10-1.11-*.gz symvers-3.7.10-1.11-desktop.gz sysctl.conf-3.7.10-1.11-desktop System.map-3.7.10-1.11-desktop vmlinux-3.7.10-1.11-desktop.gz vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.11-desktop

Dave, thanks much - I thought it would be more difficult

I removed the 1.11 files and finished the ZYPPER UP, then restarted and the system loaded normally. Much appreciated!