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From: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
To: rdunlap@infradead.org
Cc: bfields@fieldses.org, yamada.masahiro@socionext.com,
	michal.lkml@markovi.net, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] scripts:prune-kernel:remove old kernels and modules dir from system
Date: Sat,  2 Nov 2019 12:00:36 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191102063036.28601-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.com> (raw)

This patch allow you to remove old kernels and associated modules
directory from the system.You can do it at once with the -r flag
and interactively with the -i flag.

Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
---
 scripts/prune-kernel | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/prune-kernel b/scripts/prune-kernel
index e8aa940bc0a9..01d0778db71f 100755
--- a/scripts/prune-kernel
+++ b/scripts/prune-kernel
@@ -1,21 +1,69 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#This script will remove old kernels and modules directory related to it.
+#"-r" or "--remove" show how to silently remove old kernel and modules dir.
+# "-h" or "--help" show how to use this script or show without parameter.
+#"-i" or "--interactive" show how to remove interactively.
+
+flag=$1
+kernel_version=$2
+modules_version=$3
+boot_dir=/boot
+modules_dir=/lib/modules
+
+remove_old_kernel() {
+	cd $boot_dir
+	rm -If vmlinuz-$kernel_version System.map-$kernel_version config-$kernel_version
+	return 0
+}
+
+remove_old_modules_dir() {
+	cd $modules_dir
+	rm -rf $modules_version
+	return 0
+}
+
+usage() {
+	printf "Usage: $(basename $0) [-ri]\n"
+	printf "\n -r or --remove  kernel_version modules_version\n"
+	printf "\n -i or --interactive do as interactive way\n"
+	return 0
+}
+
+case "$flag" in
+	-i | --interactive)
+		printf "\nEnter kernel version to remove or blank/empty to exit:"
+		read kernel_version
+		if [[ $kernel_version != "" ]]; then
+			remove_old_kernel
+			printf "\nRemoved kernel version:$kernel_version from the system.\n\n"
+			printf "Please give the full modules directory name to remove:"
+			read modules_version
+			if [[ $modules_version != "" ]]; then
+				remove_old_modules_dir
+				printf "\n\nRemoved modules directory:$modules_version from the system.\n\n"
+			else
+				exit 1
+			fi
+		fi
+		;;
+	-h | --help)
+		usage
+		exit 0
+		;;
+	-r | --remove)
+		if [[ $# -ne 3 ]]; then
+			 printf "You need to provide kernel version and modules directory name.\n"
+			 exit 1
+		 else
+			 remove_old_kernel
+			 remove_old_modules_dir
+		fi
+		;;
+	*)
+		usage
+		exit 1
+		;;
+esac

-# because I use CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO, not the same version again and
-# again, /boot and /lib/modules/ eventually fill up.
-# Dumb script to purge that stuff:

-for f in "$@"
-do
-        if rpm -qf "/lib/modules/$f" >/dev/null; then
-                echo "keeping $f (installed from rpm)"
-        elif [ $(uname -r) = "$f" ]; then
-                echo "keeping $f (running kernel) "
-        else
-                echo "removing $f"
-                rm -f "/boot/initramfs-$f.img" "/boot/System.map-$f"
-                rm -f "/boot/vmlinuz-$f"   "/boot/config-$f"
-                rm -rf "/lib/modules/$f"
-                new-kernel-pkg --remove $f
-        fi
-done
--
2.23.0


             reply	other threads:[~2019-11-02  6:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-02  6:30 Bhaskar Chowdhury [this message]
2019-11-05  2:03 ` [PATCH] scripts:prune-kernel:remove old kernels and modules dir from system Randy Dunlap
2019-11-05  2:32   ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-11-05  4:39     ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-11-05  4:52       ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-11-06  2:53     ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-11-06  3:10       ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-11-06  4:03         ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-11-06  4:29           ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-11-06  4:31       ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-11-06  4:32         ` Randy Dunlap
2019-11-06  4:42         ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-11-06 19:30           ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-11-06 22:39             ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-11-09  7:25               ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-11-09 11:13                 ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-11-15  1:58                   ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-11-15 15:21                     ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-11-18  7:30                       ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-11-05  4:33   ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-10-30  9:54 [PATCH] scripts: prune-kernel:remove " Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-10-31  2:33 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-10-31  3:37   ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-10-31  4:32     ` Randy Dunlap
2019-10-31  4:52       ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-10-31  5:27         ` Randy Dunlap
2019-10-31  7:18           ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-10-31 15:06             ` Randy Dunlap
2019-11-01  4:23               ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-11-01  5:11                 ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2019-11-01  5:45                   ` Randy Dunlap

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