[CentOS] /boot partition too small
Sorin Srbu
Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se
Wed Oct 11 05:50:37 UTC 2017
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> From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of KM
> Sent: den 10 oktober 2017 15:55
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> 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
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