Re: Whole lot of dir's in /lib/modules - can I delete them?

Eli Schwartz <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:01:35 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.gentoo.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 4/26/26 1:10 PM, [email protected] wrote:

>> If you have cleared out old kernel images and initramfs files from your
>> /efi/ or /boot/, then you have no use for their old module files hanging
>> around in your /lib/modules/ and you can safely delete them manually to
>> recover disk space.
> 
>     Thanks Michael, that's what I though. I've been using the prebuilt
> kernel, "-bin" for a while hence a whole lot of modules but have to get
> back to my own build which usually has stuff all built-in. And yes, I
> have been deleting stuff in /efi/EFI/Gentoo but didn't think of /lib/
> modules.


I encourage both of you to install app-admin/eclean-kernel and explore
the possibility of its being more helpful than manually rm'ing files in
/efi/EFI/Gentoo.


-- 
Eli Schwartz

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