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

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On 4/27/26 12:10 AM, Michael wrote:
> On Sunday, 26 April 2026 16:52:30 British Summer Time
> gentoo.email@wht.com.au wrote:
>> Dear all,

[snip]

>> 		Andrew
> 
> Whenever you build a kernel with various options built as modules [M],
> as opposed to building them in-kernel [*], the compiled modules are
> stored under /lib/modules/.
> 
> You can find all available modules of your current kernel with:
> 
> find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -type f -name '*.ko*'
> 
> 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.

	Thanks,
		Andrew

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