Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?
On 5/10/20 03:07, 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
As Charles Curley suggested, 248M usually is enough to hold a reasonable
number of kernels, configs, and initrd files, along with the contents of
/boot/grub. It might be worthwhile to examine it for extraneous files.
But if /boot turns out to need more space, you could unmount /dev/sda1
and /dev/sda2, remount /dev/sda2 on (for example) /mnt, move its
contents to /boot, remount /dev/sda1, and reinstall grub.
After finishing, you could make an LVM physical volume on /dev/sda2 and
add it to one of the other volume groups, although both seem to have
plenty of space.
Regards
Tom Dial
>
> 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.
> Enjoy!
> Rick
>
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