Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

On 2020-05-10 02:07, Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Sun, May 10, 2020, at 1:17 AM, David Christensen wrote:
> > On 2020-05-09 22:05, Will Mengarini wrote:
> > > * Rick Thomas <rick.thomas@pobox.com> [20-05/09=Sa 20:05 -0700]:
> > > > What's the best way to increase the size of /boot?
> > > By creating a reliable backup and reformatting the disk to
> > > the new format.  I've never found it to be cost-effective
> > > to try anything else.
> > +1
>
> Yeah, that's probably what I'll do.  Fortunately, it's an amd64 machine, so I'll be able to use GRML to do the work.


I advise that you put your operating system on one drive and your data 
on other drives (e.g. RAID file server), and that you keep your system 
drive image small enough to fit on a "16 GB" device -- HDD, SSD, USB 
flash drive, SD card, etc..


As for using GRML, I have never heard of it.  The Debian Installer can 
get the job done.  That said, I have about a half dozen machines and 
have been feeling the need for installation and deployment automation. 
I have heard of Puppet more than once.  Lucas [1] recommends Ansible 
[2], so I will probably try that.


David


[1] https://mwl.io/

[2] https://www.ansible.com/