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

Michael <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:15:11 +0100

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On Monday, 27 April 2026 08:21:22 British Summer Time Alexis wrote:
> William Kenworthy <[email protected]> writes:
> >> 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
> 
> Oh okay. i don't have an /etc/kernels/ directory, only an
> /etc/kernel/ directory, and i don't use genkernel, so you might be
> right.
> 
> Not sure if you're aware that genkernel is very deprecated, as per
> the Warning on the "genkernel" page on the wiki?
> 
> > genkernel is unmaintained; documentation presented here may be
> > incomplete and may not reflect the current state of Gentoo
> > tooling. Users encountering issues with genkernel will be asked
> > to use another tool. Please see the Distribution kernel section
> > in the Handbook for a supported alternative.
> 
> -- https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Genkernel
> 
> 
> Alexis.

I configure and compile my own kernels manually, so I don't have /etc/
kernel* directory.

I didn't know about eclean-kernel - thank you Eli for pointing it out.  
I always thought the equivalent of 'sudo apt autoremove' which also 
cleans stale kernel images and files is a useful script missing from 
Gentoo.

As it happens eclean-kernel won't work on my Gentoo systems, because I 
use efistub instead of a boot manager/loader and my boot layout and 
kernel naming convention are not standard.

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