[GTALUG] Enlarging /boot

[William Witteman]

Thanks for the response!  My /boot partition is 239Mb, which is just small
enough that a particularly chunky kernel and an upgrade to it is too much.

I am not in a big hurry to delete the kernel image I am actively using to
make space for the upgraded one - 'cause every 5 years or so I need to boot
from an old kernel, and I'd like to be able to.

On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 at 11:37, Kevin Cozens via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> On 2021-10-07 10:45 p.m., William Witteman via talk wrote:
> > When I installed Debian on my current computer, I (foolishly) let the
> > install script partition my disk.  Now I have a /boot partition that is
> too
> > small.
>
> How small is your /boot partition? Are you using it for more than just the
> kernel files needed to boot your system?
>
> I have a /boot that is way bigger than I really need but I wanted room to
> keep multiple kernels so I can test out different distros that may require
> different kernels. Allowing 100M per kernel should be more than enough
> space. I currently have two kernels and they only use 153M of disk space.
>
> > The system is using lvm
>
> I don't use lvm so I can't help with that. All I can say is that when I
> have
> needed to adjust partition sizes I use gparted. That might not help you.
>
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