[CentOS] /boot partition too small

Wed Oct 11 05:50:37 UTC 2017
Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of KM
> Sent: den 10 oktober 2017 15:55
> To: CentOS Mailing List <centos at 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.


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//Sorin