Re: Enlarging /boot

[Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org>]

Le 02/08/2020 à 23:48, Leslie Rhorer a écrit :
> On 8/2/2020 3:32 PM, Erwan David wrote:
>> I used the buster installer about 1 year ago,with a fully encrypted
>> disk, thus
>>
>> a /boot/efi partition, a /boot partition then an encrypted lvm.
>>
>> /boot is now not large enough to even have 2 kernels on it,
>> initramfs-tools cannot create the images.
>>
>> I see this
>> /dev/nvme0n1p2                     237M   92M  133M  41% /boot
>> /dev/nvme0n1p1                     511M  5.3M  506M   2% /boot/efi
>>
>> Is it possible to reduce /boot/efi and have some more room for /boot, or
>> should I reinstall the computer ?
> 
>     Um, the kernel is only about 5M in size.  With 133M free, there
> should be plenty of room for multiple kernels.  The initrd image is
> usually under 40M, so there should be room for the entire boot image to
> be duplicated.  Note the current use is only 41%.  You shouldn't need
> more space, per se, except that normally the initrd is temporarily
> uncompressed while it is being created.  I think you could get around
> this by employing chroot.

My initrd is 69 M...

>     To answer your question, I am given to understand /boot/efi is a
> vfat file system, so it should be possible to shrink it, move the /boot
> partition, and then expand it.

However both /boot/efi and /boot are critoical for the booting process,
thus my concerns.