In alt.os.linux.debian Darren Salt <news@youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid> wrote:
> I demand that Ant may or may not have written...

> [snip] 
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> It won't matter. If you need the headers, you want linux-kernel-headers.

> [snip]

Ahh, I didn't know that.  $ dpkg -l | grep ^ii |grep linux-kernel-headers
ii  linux-kernel-headers              2.6.18-7                         Linux
 Kernel Headers for development

# apt-get remove kernel-headers-2.6.8-3 kernel-headers-2.6.8-3-k7
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
kernel-headers-2.6-k7 kernel-headers-2.6.8-3 kernel-headers-2.6.8-3-k7
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 40.8MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 159345 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing kernel-headers-2.6-k7 ...
Removing kernel-headers-2.6.8-3-k7 ...
Removing kernel-headers-2.6.8-3 ...

# apt-get remove  kernel-kbuild-2.6-3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
kernel-kbuild-2.6-3
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 1778kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 150551 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing kernel-kbuild-2.6-3 ...

# pwd ; ls -all
/lib/modules
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 1024 May  8 13:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 5120 May  7 15:47 ..
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 1024 May  3 07:26 2.6.18-3-k7
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 1024 May  4 15:31 2.6.18-4-k7

I hope that was OK.


$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1               270969    207387     49126  81% /
tmpfs                   517936         0    517936   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                     10240        92     10148   1% /dev
tmpfs                   517936         0    517936   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda5             14421344   5842460   7846324  43% /home
/dev/hda6              4807056   2903168   1659704  64% /usr
/dev/hda7               918322    483257    386069  56% /var
/dev/hda8               918322     16487    852839   2% /tmp
/dev/hda9              4807056    200528   4362344   5% /usr/local
/dev/hda11            47383396   2431172  42545288   6% /extra
/dev/hda12              918322     16452    852874   2% /others
/dev/hdb1               861728     16416    801540   3% /stuff
/dev/hdb5              5336664   1114876   3950696  23% /storage

Hmm. Where did 40.8MB free, I was supposed to get, go? Were they not
from /boot?
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