A lightening fast answer from Dr. Tom, and I quote:
Yep, you can just blow it away. It's helpful to have it there if
your new kernel after the patches can't be booted, but then, you
probably have a good /genvmunix and you can always boot from the
installation media (albeit painfully if you need an NHD kit also).
Thanks Tom!
> Trying to clean up the hard drive a little. We've been running the
> current patch kit on our 5.1B server for over a year. I don't think
> that we're going back. Is there a need to keep the vmunix.prepatch
file
> or can it safely be deleted so I can reclaim the space?
>
> Apologies for the strange subject line. Message was rejected the
first
> time because "remove" was in the subject.
Tom
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Received on Wed May 11 2005 - 22:17:14 NZST