> -----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. -- //Sorin