Re: Out of space error from dpkg, but I can't see where
On Mon, 2026-01-12 at 19:30 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 8:50 AM Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > > 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?
> Anyway I created a gparted USB stick this afternoon and used it to
> reduce the main (/) partition's size by 1.5Gb and added the resulting
> extra space to the /boot partition. It took a **long** time to move
> the 1Tb / partition along a bit (several hours) but it all worked
> very smoothly and I now have lots of spare space in /boot.
For a next time, it's probably easier (and certainly much faster) to
just move /boot and its contents to the main partition and stop
mounting the former /boot partition there.
(And when using LVM you could then also add its space to an existing
partition, but otherwise it's also not a lot of space lost...)
--
Jan Claeys
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