Cleaning up orphaned initrd and vmlinuz files from Satellite /var/lib/tftpboot/boot/ directory

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • After provisioning hosts, *.initrd.img and *.vmlinuz files remain in the /var/lib/tftpboot/boot/ directory, taking up storage space.
  • Can these files be removed to free up capacity?

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite
    • 6.8
    • 6.9
    • 6.10

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