Re: Out of space error from dpkg, but I can't see where
Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote:
> Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> Well, good for you. I would've booted boot since what's the point? It
> can just as well be a directory off / and /boot/efi can be the requisite
> FAT partition. Especially as I at least usually have some largish rescue
> iso like GRML in /boot as well. Don't need to fish around for some USB
> stick for partition surgery when the rescue system is right there on the
> SSD. And GRML makes it easy, there's a Debian package which generates a
> GRUB entry to boot the ISO directly.
Yes, ideally I would have liked to get rid of the separate /boot
partition but the reality was that moving things around a bit with
gparted was more straightforward.
Next clean installation I will try and get rid of the separate /boot.
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Chris Green
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