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