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#1 2011-02-08 11:12:03

mibadt
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[SOLVED] Too small /boot partition

Hi,
I did a fresh net 686 install on a laptop and followed Wiki's recommendation to create a separate 15MB ext2 /boot partition.
However, after full system upgrade that partition is almost full (only 807KB remain free).
Is this OK? Can I live with this or should I (how) resize that partition?
Please advise!
Thanks

Miki Badt

========copy of df -h=======

udev                   10M  204K  9.9M   2% /dev
/dev/sda2             7.7G  2.6G  4.8G  35% /
shm                   941M  216K  940M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1              15M   13M  807K  95% /boot
/dev/sda3             187G  193M  177G   1% /home
/dev/sda6              33G   33M   33G   1% /backup



=======copy of fstab

/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda2 / ext4 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda3 /home ext4 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda6 /backup xfs defaults 0 1
===================

Last edited by mibadt (2011-02-09 03:24:16)


Best regards,
Michael Badt

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#2 2011-02-08 11:26:09

litemotiv
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Re: [SOLVED] Too small /boot partition

Which wiki page advised you to do that? It seems very small for a boot partition.


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#3 2011-02-08 11:39:13

mibadt
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Re: [SOLVED] Too small /boot partition

My error, wiki recommends 32MB.


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Michael Badt

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#4 2011-02-08 11:51:07

pit
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Re: [SOLVED] Too small /boot partition

32MB is still too small. I'd say 50~100MB if you want to use diffrent kernels or just feeling safe smile

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#5 2011-02-08 12:26:49

cedeel
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Re: [SOLVED] Too small /boot partition

That's just silly.
I have 2 arch systems, using the same boot partition.
Two kernel images per install (regular and fallback)

It's 38M with ~8M free.

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#6 2011-02-08 13:07:57

karol
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Re: [SOLVED] Too small /boot partition

IIRC it was 100 MB as per the automatic installer but indeed the wiki says 32MB.

Last edited by karol (2011-02-08 13:10:01)

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#7 2011-02-08 14:28:15

tomk
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Re: [SOLVED] Too small /boot partition

For resizing, boot into a live cd with the appropriate tools on it. Arch install cd is fine if you're ok working from cli, otherwise get something like the gparted live cd, grml, sysresccd, etc.

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#8 2011-02-08 21:03:59

cesura
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Re: [SOLVED] Too small /boot partition

Way too small for a /boot partition. wink I always use ~200MB, but I also have a habit of backing up previous kernel images when I update.

If you want to easily resize, I suggest a gparted live CD (an Ubuntu CD or something of the sort will work if you don't want to burn another disc).
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

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#9 2011-02-09 03:25:45

mibadt
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Re: [SOLVED] Too small /boot partition

Thanks all!
Solved by booting (from CD) SystemRescue, and using GParted to increase /boot partition to 40MB.

Last edited by mibadt (2011-02-09 03:26:09)


Best regards,
Michael Badt

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