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Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

From Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?
Date 2020-05-11 06:10 +0200
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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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Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size? "Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> - 2020-05-10 05:30 +0200
  Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's  size? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-05-10 05:40 +0200
    Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's  size? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-05-10 05:50 +0200
    Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's  size? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-05-10 06:00 +0200
      Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's  size? elvis <elvis@dogonfire.com> - 2020-05-11 07:50 +0200
  Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase  it's size? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-05-10 06:40 +0200
    Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size? "Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> - 2020-05-10 09:10 +0200
      Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size? "Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> - 2020-05-10 11:30 +0200
        Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's  size? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-05-10 12:30 +0200
          Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size? "Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> - 2020-05-10 13:30 +0200
            Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's  size? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-05-11 08:10 +0200
  Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's  size? "Will Mengarini" <seldon@eskimo.com> - 2020-05-10 07:20 +0200
    Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's  size? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-05-10 09:10 +0200
    Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size? "Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> - 2020-05-10 09:20 +0200
    Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's  size? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-05-10 10:20 +0200
      Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size? "Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> - 2020-05-10 11:30 +0200
        Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-05-10 14:00 +0200
        Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's  size? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-05-10 21:40 +0200
          Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size? "Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> - 2020-05-11 01:20 +0200
            Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's  size? elvis <elvis@dogonfire.com> - 2020-05-11 07:40 +0200
            Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's  size? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-05-11 09:40 +0200
          Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's  size? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-05-11 08:20 +0200
            Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's  size? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-05-11 10:20 +0200
              Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's  size? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-05-11 15:10 +0200
        Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's  size? Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> - 2020-05-11 06:10 +0200
    Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's  size? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-05-11 13:40 +0200
      Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase  it's size? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-05-11 16:30 +0200
        Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's  size? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-05-11 18:30 +0200
          Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase  it's size? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-05-11 18:50 +0200
  Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's  size? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-05-10 16:20 +0200
    Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size? Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2020-05-10 16:40 +0200
      Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's  size? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-05-10 17:20 +0200
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