/boot partition is 85% full, need to free up the space.

[Amith Kumar]

Hello,

My cPanel Dedicated Server installation shows /boot partition is 85% full out of 500MB which was partitioned at the time of CentOS installation.

After 3-4 days of install i am getting notifications that the partition is full. I have been using some 15 VPS and 7 Dedicated servers which are using hardly 200MB of space, this is the first time i am getting this type of alert.

The contents of the /boot folder is of below, let me know which files to delete or how to handle this situation.

root@falcon [/]# ls -lah /boot
total 377M
dr-xr-xr-x.  5 root root 4.0K Aug 10 12:18 .
drwxr-xr-x  22 root root 4.0K Aug 14 14:50 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 121K Aug  6 03:15 config-3.10.0-229.11.1.el7.x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 121K May 13 12:15 config-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 121K Jun 24 00:15 config-3.10.0-229.7.2.el7.x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 120K Jul 30 14:58 config-3.10.0-233.1.2.lve1.3.33.4.el7.x86_64
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root 4.0K Aug 10 10:17 grub
drwxr-xr-x.  6 root root 4.0K Aug 10 10:21 grub2
-rw-------   1 root root  39M Aug  9 13:43 initramfs-0-rescue-2b14722044e44d9ea1f7b2134fad56fb.img
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  25M Jul 10  2014 initramfs-0-rescue-74f877a555c841639922c44507d67b89.img
-rw-------   1 root root  37M Aug 10 10:21 initramfs-0-rescue-d2991f15fb2f4069a35194e6afd96a4d.img
-rw-------   1 root root  38M Aug  9 13:42 initramfs-3.10.0-229.11.1.el7.x86_64.img
-rw-------   1 root root  18M Aug  9 14:39 initramfs-3.10.0-229.11.1.el7.x86_64kdump.img
-rw-------   1 root root  16M Jun  4 08:33 initramfs-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64.img
-rw-------   1 root root  16M Jun  4 09:09 initramfs-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64kdump.img
-rw-------   1 root root  38M Aug  9 13:30 initramfs-3.10.0-229.7.2.el7.x86_64.img
-rw-------   1 root root  18M Aug  9 13:34 initramfs-3.10.0-229.7.2.el7.x86_64kdump.img
-rw-------   1 root root  37M Aug 10 10:20 initramfs-3.10.0-233.1.2.lve1.3.33.4.el7.x86_64.img
-rw-------   1 root root  18M Aug 10 12:18 initramfs-3.10.0-233.1.2.lve1.3.33.4.el7.x86_64kdump.img
-rw-------   1 root root  37M Aug 10 10:20 initrd-3.10.0-233.1.2.lve1.3.33.4.el7.x86_64
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 577K Aug 10 13:44 initrd-plymouth.img
drwx------   2 root root  16K Aug  9 13:29 lost+found
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 235K Aug  6 03:17 symvers-3.10.0-229.11.1.el7.x86_64.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 235K May 13 12:17 symvers-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 235K Jun 24 00:17 symvers-3.10.0-229.7.2.el7.x86_64.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 228K Jul 30 15:02 symvers-3.10.0-233.1.2.lve1.3.33.4.el7.x86_64.gz
-rw-------   1 root root 2.8M Aug  6 03:15 System.map-3.10.0-229.11.1.el7.x86_64
-rw-------   1 root root 2.8M May 13 12:15 System.map-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64
-rw-------   1 root root 2.8M Jun 24 00:15 System.map-3.10.0-229.7.2.el7.x86_64
-rw-------   1 root root 2.8M Jul 30 14:58 System.map-3.10.0-233.1.2.lve1.3.33.4.el7.x86_64
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 4.8M Aug  9 13:43 vmlinuz-0-rescue-2b14722044e44d9ea1f7b2134fad56fb
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root 4.7M Jul 10  2014 vmlinuz-0-rescue-74f877a555c841639922c44507d67b89
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 4.7M Aug 10 10:21 vmlinuz-0-rescue-d2991f15fb2f4069a35194e6afd96a4d
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 4.8M Aug  6 03:15 vmlinuz-3.10.0-229.11.1.el7.x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  171 Aug  6 03:15 .vmlinuz-3.10.0-229.11.1.el7.x86_64.hmac
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 4.8M May 13 12:15 vmlinuz-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  170 May 13 12:15 .vmlinuz-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64.hmac
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 4.8M Jun 24 00:15 vmlinuz-3.10.0-229.7.2.el7.x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  170 Jun 24 00:15 .vmlinuz-3.10.0-229.7.2.el7.x86_64.hmac
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 4.7M Jul 30 14:58 vmlinuz-3.10.0-233.1.2.lve1.3.33.4.el7.x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  182 Jul 30 14:58 .vmlinuz-3.10.0-233.1.2.lve1.3.33.4.el7.x86_64.hmac

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

The following thread should help:

https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/guidance-on-cleaning-boot-partition.395951/

Thank you.

 

[dalem]

yum remove non_used_kernel