On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:31 PM, M A Young <m.a.young@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Tod Thomas wrote: > >> I need to upgrade to Fedora 13 but my boot partition is too small (200 MB) >> and it needs to be at least 500 MB. The boot partition is followed by an LVM >> volume goup composed of a 145 GB root LV and a 5GB swap LV. How can I >> 'safely' decrease the size of the volume group and increase the size of the >> physical boot partition? > > You can resize a physical volume of a volume group with the pvresize > command, though this only resizes the contents and you will need to use > something like fdisk or parted to resize the partition to match. > > However this will free up space at the end of the physical volume > partition, and to make the boot partition bigger you probably want to move > the start which is rather more tricky. One earlier list suggestion had been to keep just one kernel in /boot and to change the reserved-blocks-percentage to 0% with tune2fs to get a few more (supposedly enough) MB for pre-upgrade to run. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
