Re: Out of space error from dpkg, but I can't see where
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 01:47:47PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> What's the most straightforward way to increase the size of /boot?
> There's **loads** of disk space available but since /boot is a
> separate partition I guess I need to run gparted or some such from a
> USB stick to shrink the / partition and grow /boot a bit.
It looks like your root filesystem is on LVM so that should be fairly
trivial (other than the need to boot into a live system) to shrink.
Is your partition for /boot adjacent to that though? What is the actual
layout of your nvme0n1?
> Why is /boot a separate partition? On my other trixie system (not
> EFI) everything is just one partition. Both systems were installed
> 'from scratch' and I just let the installer do default partitioning.
> Does EFI really need to be so much more complicated?
Not usually no. I can't speak of what the installer does by default, so
I don't doubt what you say, it's just that I always do it manually.
Possibly it;s because you put root on LVM, it is being cautious and
putting /boot outside of that? No need for that these days as Grub
can understand LVM, but maybe that is why it chose to do that.
In general it is best to use as few partitions as possible and LVM, and
change things as needed later. You are half way there, but for this
issue with /boot!
Thanks,
Andy
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