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Re: Enlarging /boot

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On 8/2/20 4:32 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.
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> /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 ?
Perhaps you can make the partition larger, using an external version of 
gparted.
Download gparted and burn it to a cd or a bootable usb stick and make the
partition bigger. This will not destroy the data on the partition, but 
it can
give you as much extra space as you need. You will, of course, have to
shrink the partition that is next on the drive to make room for this 
operation.
You can do that without losing data on the other partition, assuming it is
not already full. gparted will caution you about the possible loss of data,
but typically there is no loss in doing these operations. These functions
will take a few minutes, so be patient.
--doug
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Enlarging /boot Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2020-08-02 22:40 +0200
  Re: Enlarging /boot Leslie Rhorer <lesrhorer@att.net> - 2020-08-02 23:50 +0200
    Re: Enlarging /boot Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2020-08-03 08:40 +0200
      Re: Enlarging /boot Andrew Cater <amacater@gmail.com> - 2020-08-03 09:50 +0200
        Re: Enlarging /boot Leslie Rhorer <lesrhorer@att.net> - 2020-08-04 00:20 +0200
      Re: Enlarging /boot David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-08-03 18:30 +0200
  Re: Enlarging /boot Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2020-08-02 23:50 +0200
    Re: Enlarging /boot Leslie Rhorer <lesrhorer@att.net> - 2020-08-03 00:00 +0200
  Re: Enlarging /boot David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-08-03 05:40 +0200
  Re: Enlarging /boot didier.gaumet@gmail.com - 2020-08-03 10:10 +0200

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