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 Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:26 pm Post subject: [SOLVED]Cleaning up my mess. |
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Hello.
Finally have working Wifi and official Nvidia drivers. I've cleaned up some of the mess I've made with installing Grub but wanted some advice regarding the rest. I dont want to delete something again that needed to be there, already done that once and had to reisntall Grub again today.
I suspect some of the contents of my /efi is unneeded, please see ls output of /efi:
| Code: | config-6.1.67-gentoo System.map-6.1.67-gentoo
config-6.1.67-gentoo.old System.map-6.1.67-gentoo.old
config-6.1.69-gentoo-dist System.map-6.1.69-gentoo-dist
config-6.1.69-gentoo-dist.old System.map-6.1.69-gentoo-dist.old
EFI 'System Volume Information'
initramfs-6.1.67-gentoo.img vmlinuz-6.1.67-gentoo
initramfs-6.1.67-gentoo.img.old vmlinuz-6.1.67-gentoo.old
initramfs-6.1.69-gentoo-dist.img vmlinuz-6.1.69-gentoo-dist
initramfs-6.1.69-gentoo-dist.img.old vmlinuz-6.1.69-gentoo-dist.old |
Here is the output of ls for my /boot, vmlinuz-6.6.13-gentoo-gentoo-dist is my working kernel, is it safe to clean up the rest and then regenerate a new grub.cfg ?:
| Code: | config-6.1.67-gentoo
config-6.1.67-gentoo.old
config-6.6.13-gentoo-dist
config-6.6.13-gentoo-gentoo-dist
config-6.6.13-gentoo-gentoo-dist.old
grub
initramfs-6.1.67-gentoo.img
initramfs-6.1.67-gentoo.img.old
initramfs-6.6.13-gentoo-dist.img
initramfs-6.6.13-gentoo-gentoo-dist.img
initramfs-6.6.13-gentoo-gentoo-dist.img.old
System.map-6.1.67-gentoo
System.map-6.1.67-gentoo.old
System.map-6.6.13-gentoo-dist
System.map-6.6.13-gentoo-gentoo-dist
System.map-6.6.13-gentoo-gentoo-dist.old
vmlinuz-6.1.67-gentoo
vmlinuz-6.1.67-gentoo.old
vmlinuz-6.6.13-gentoo-dist
vmlinuz-6.6.13-gentoo-gentoo-dist
vmlinuz-6.6.13-gentoo-gentoo-dist.old |
Appreciate your input. Thank you.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2024 1:11 am Post subject: Re: Cleaning up my mess. |
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| nzPenguin wrote: | | I suspect some of the contents of my /efi is unneeded, please see ls output of /efi: |
You need only the subdirectory "EFI", so you can delete all other files.
| nzPenguin wrote: | | Here is the output of ls for my /boot, vmlinuz-6.6.13-gentoo-gentoo-dist is my working kernel, is it safe to clean up the rest and then regenerate a new grub.cfg ? |
You need the subdirectory "grub" and all files containing "*6.6.13-gentoo-gentoo-dist*" ... it is wise to have a backup (*6.6.13-gentoo-gentoo-dist.old), but if you really want you can delete them also. Yes, after this deletion you must run grub-mkconfig again - and check the output of grub-mkconfig ! (but please no grub-install again; I only say this in advance, because once there was somebody in our forum who thought both is necessary).
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| Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2024 1:56 am Post subject: Re: Cleaning up my mess. |
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| pietinger wrote: | | nzPenguin wrote: | | I suspect some of the contents of my /efi is unneeded, please see ls output of /efi: |
You need only the subdirectory "EFI", so you can delete all other files.
| nzPenguin wrote: | | Here is the output of ls for my /boot, vmlinuz-6.6.13-gentoo-gentoo-dist is my working kernel, is it safe to clean up the rest and then regenerate a new grub.cfg ? |
You need the subdirectory "grub" and all files containing "*6.6.13-gentoo-gentoo-dist*" ... it is wise to have a backup (*6.6.13-gentoo-gentoo-dist.old), but if you really want you can delete them also. Yes, after this deletion you must run grub-mkconfig again - and check the output of grub-mkconfig ! (but please no grub-install again; I only say this in advance, because once there was somebody in our forum who thought both is necessary). |
Perfect thank you so much for confirming that. 6.6.13-gentoo-gentoo-dist-dist is my working kernel  Ill rename that after clean up but before generating a new grub.cfg. Ill keep a .old too as backup, that seems like a reasonable idea. |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:32 am Post subject: Re: Cleaning up my mess. |
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| nzPenguin wrote: | | Perfect thank you so much for confirming that. 6.6.13-gentoo-gentoo-dist-dist is my working kernel Ill rename that after clean up but before generating a new grub.cfg. Ill keep a .old too as backup, that seems like a reasonable idea. |
Moment please: I have not confirmed THAT 6.6.13-gentoo-gentoo-dist-dist IS your working kernel. You said so ... and I confirmed what you THEN need: grub + working kernel.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2024 10:05 pm Post subject: Re: Cleaning up my mess. |
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| pietinger wrote: | | nzPenguin wrote: | | Perfect thank you so much for confirming that. 6.6.13-gentoo-gentoo-dist-dist is my working kernel Ill rename that after clean up but before generating a new grub.cfg. Ill keep a .old too as backup, that seems like a reasonable idea. |
Moment please: I have not confirmed THAT 6.6.13-gentoo-gentoo-dist-dist IS your working kernel. You said so ... and I confirmed what you THEN need: grub + working kernel. |
No but I had already confirmed it is the working kernel, sorry if there was any confusion. |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2024 11:35 am Post subject: Re: Cleaning up my mess. |
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| nzPenguin wrote: | | [...] sorry if there was any confusion. |
It is all okay. You are very Welcome ! 
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