On 8/2/2020 3:32 PM, Erwan David wrote:
I used the buster installer about 1 year ago,with a fully encrypted
disk, thus
a /boot/efi partition, a /boot partition then an encrypted lvm.
/boot is now not large enough to even have 2 kernels on it,
initramfs-tools cannot create the images.
I see this
/dev/nvme0n1p2 237M 92M 133M 41% /boot
/dev/nvme0n1p1 511M 5.3M 506M 2% /boot/efi
Is it possible to reduce /boot/efi and have some more room for /boot, or
should I reinstall the computer ?
Um, the kernel is only about 5M in size. With 133M free, there should
be plenty of room for multiple kernels. The initrd image is usually
under 40M, so there should be room for the entire boot image to be
duplicated. Note the current use is only 41%. You shouldn't need more
space, per se, except that normally the initrd is temporarily
uncompressed while it is being created. I think you could get around
this by employing chroot.
To answer your question, I am given to understand /boot/efi is a vfat
file system, so it should be possible to shrink it, move the /boot
partition, and then expand it.
