[CentOS] /boot partition too small

Tue Oct 10 19:05:56 UTC 2017
KM <info4km at yahoo.com>

 Do i need to do something special or is it as easy as:
- save the contents of the current /boot - umount /boot and change the /etc/fstab so it doesn't mount again-  create a boot directory that is in the root  filesystem- copy the contents back
I realize the physical/current /boot will be a waste of space but it's not that big so it's fine.   
I thought i probably have to make configuration changes of some sort.
Again I apologize in advance since I am not really good at this (partition/file system).  I have tried searching but am never sure exactly what I should try.   I need to find the "for dummies" version(s) of this. Thanks again.
KM

    On ‎Tuesday‎, ‎October‎ ‎10‎, ‎2017‎ ‎02‎:‎44‎:‎12‎ ‎PM, Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org> wrote:  
 
 On 10/10/17 15:27, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, Pete Biggs wrote:
> 
>> No, you can't do that. /boot is special and needs to be a separate
>> partition.
> 
> Needs is a bit strong, as grub2 does support LVM.  It's not a supported
> configuration for Redhat.
> 
> I'm not a sure there's a lot to it beyond having the lvm module loaded in
> grub, but I've honestly not tried.
> 

Indeed, /boot does not need to be a separate partition. I have /boot 
within the root filesystem on my test boxes where I know I will need to 
install many / all kernels for testing / development purposes for the 
specific reason that I do not need to set a size for /boot and it can 
just consume whatever it needs from the rest of the filesystem.

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