On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:36:16AM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 10 October 2017 at 09:55, KM <info4km at yahoo.com> wrote: > > 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. > > KM > > There is no easy way to increase the /boot partition. One can try to > build another /boot partition and use that but that isn't simple > either and prone to problems if the /boot is outside of where that > particular BIOS can intepret (aka embedded in an LVM) or jump to. > > I have found the simpler method is usually: dump the disks to backup, > reinstall the system with 500 to 1000 MB /boot and restore from > backups. You can do this (warning--back up everything first, just in case): -download the grub live CD image (google for it) -burn it to a CD -boot it -use the graphical partition editor to resize and/or move existing partitions to make room for a larger boot then enlarge the /boot. all this may take a while once you tell it to commit your changes, but it isn't hard to do. I've done it several times, as well as smaller changes, and have yet to have a failure (knock on wood). Does it work with LVM? Hmmm... good question. I think so, but would have to go check to be sure. Good luck! -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. ------------------------------ Philippians 4:13 -------------------------------