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

On 27/4/26 12:40, Alexis wrote:
> Dale <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> What is /etc/kernels?  I don't have that here.  Link to a doc or
>> something maybe?
>
> i presume Bill meant /etc/kernel/*, e.g.
>
>  https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Distribution_Kernel#Using_.2Fetc.2Fkernel.2Fconfig.d 
>
>
> and
>
>  https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=1177194
>
> (Although the latter link is 502 for me at the moment.)
>
>
> Alexis.
>
> No ... this (possibly due to using genkernel?):


rattus ~ # ls -al /etc/kernels
total 7892
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Apr 18 20:26 .
drwxr-xr-x 103 root root   4096 Apr 27 06:26 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 193674 Jan 24  2020 
kernel-config-4.19.97-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 184104 Apr  3  2021 
kernel-config-5.10.27-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 153153 Jul 17  2021 
kernel-config-5.10.49-gentoo-r1-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 220570 Jul 17  2021 
kernel-config-5.10.49-r1-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 220550 Jul 24  2021 
kernel-config-5.10.52-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 225022 Sep 12  2021 
kernel-config-5.10.61-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 233948 Feb 14  2022 
kernel-config-5.15.23-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 233829 Mar 14  2022 
kernel-config-5.15.26-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 233763 Jun 16  2022 
kernel-config-5.15.41-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 233827 Jul 22  2022 
kernel-config-5.15.52-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 233900 Sep  4  2022 
kernel-config-5.15.59-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 230694 Jan  7  2023 
kernel-config-5.15.80-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 230729 Jan 20  2023 
kernel-config-5.15.88-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 208758 Apr  2  2020 
kernel-config-5.4.28-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 179480 May 18  2020 
kernel-config-5.4.38-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 208784 Jul 14  2020 
kernel-config-5.4.48-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 209404 Oct 30  2020 
kernel-config-5.4.72-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 209348 Mar  8  2021 
kernel-config-5.4.97-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 210144 Apr 20  2023 
kernel-config-6.1.19-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 233181 Aug  9  2025 
kernel-config-6.12.31-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 234269 Nov 23 16:57 
kernel-config-6.12.41-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 210066 Jun 22  2023 
kernel-config-6.1.31-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 210086 Jul 26  2023 
kernel-config-6.1.41-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 208376 Dec  2  2023 
kernel-config-6.1.57-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 210740 Jan 15  2024 
kernel-config-6.1.67-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 243042 Apr 18 20:27 
kernel-config-6.18.18-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 218078 Jan 28  2024 
kernel-config-6.6.13-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 217966 Apr 13  2024 
kernel-config-6.6.21-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 226009 Jun 12  2024 
kernel-config-6.6.30-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 226039 Jul 20  2024 
kernel-config-6.6.38-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 226034 Sep  6  2024 
kernel-config-6.6.47-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 226084 Nov 13  2024 
kernel-config-6.6.52-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 226219 Nov 13  2024 
kernel-config-6.6.58-gentoo-r1-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 226364 Nov 13  2024 
kernel-config-6.6.58-r1-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 226165 Nov 23  2024 
kernel-config-6.6.62-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 226209 Mar 21  2025 
kernel-config-6.6.67-gentoo-x86_64
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 126130 Dec 25  2019 
kernel-config-x86_64-4.19.86-gentoo