On 10/11/2017 12:04 AM, Toralf Lund wrote:
On 10/10/17 15:55, KM wrote:
First off - let me say I am not an administrator. I need to know if
there is an easy way to increase my /boot partition. When I
installed CentOS 6 after running 5, it was my oversight not to
increase the /boot size. it's too small and I can't do yum updates.
if it's not easy to actually increase it, is it safe to take a chunk
in my root filesystem (like /new.boot or something) and just mount it
as /boot from now on so it uses the space or is that not a good
idea? I am sure I could easily copy the rpms/kernel stuff over to it
and then unmounts the real /boot and mount this new area as /boot.
Can you administrators let me know what you think of all this? Thanks
in advance.
Hi,
Since a lot of people seem to say none of the above can be done, I'm
starting to feel slightly unsure, but I though gparted could extend,
shrink and move partitions while preserving data. You'd have to use
the "live" version when operating on system partitions. See
https://gparted.org
I would prefer boot up in single, and partition a new boot device, with
the larger /dev/sda1, and whatever else lvm stuff, then copy the file
systems across with dump or xfsdump or whatever, swap the devices and
boot. this way the old disk is a safe backup. heck, /boot can be a
SD card or USB stick :-p
--
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
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