-----Original Message----- From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of KM Sent: den 10 oktober 2017 15:55 To: CentOS Mailing List centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] /boot partition too small
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.
Been there done that.
A simple solution is to edit /etc/yum.conf and change the line
installonly_limit=5
to e.g.
installonly_limit=3
and see if that's enough with the existing boot partition size.
A "yum update" should delete the two oldest kernel images.
-- //Sorin