KM wrote: > Thanks for all of the input, not really sure what if anything I will do. > i was hoping it would be easy and i could just create a /boot in root, > and copy the actual boot contents to it and use it. wishful thinking i > guess. just to give a complete picture here is the current partitioning > on the server....in case anyone wants to say anymore. Thanks in advance. > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/vg_bldsrv-lv_root > 50G 26G 22G 55% / > tmpfs 9.0G 156K 9.0G 1% /dev/shm > /dev/sda1 96M 33M 59M 36% /boot > /dev/mapper/vg_bldsrv-lv_home > 861G 371G 447G 46% /home > > Most of this is like speaking another language to me anyway. I'll > consider it all. What I would recommend: go out and buy a "small" new h/d, say, 150GB or 250GB. Also get an adapter for it (let me note that I actually bought, a year or two ago, a hot-swap drive bay that fits in a std. tower case...). Then partition that (we've been using 1G for /boot for years), mount it on /mnt, mount newdrive/boot /mnt/newdrive/boot, and rsync -HPavx /. /mnt/newdrive, and rsync -HPavx /boot /mnt/newdrive/boot Then grub-install /dev/newdrive, and swap drives. mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos