On Mon, 2026-01-12 at 19:30 +0000, Chris Green wrote: > Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 8:50 AM Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > Why is /boot a separate partition? On my other trixie system > > > (not EFI) everything is just one partition. Both systems were > > > installed 'from scratch' and I just let the installer do default > > > partitioning. > > > Does EFI really need to be so much more complicated?
> Anyway I created a gparted USB stick this afternoon and used it to > reduce the main (/) partition's size by 1.5Gb and added the resulting > extra space to the /boot partition. It took a **long** time to move > the 1Tb / partition along a bit (several hours) but it all worked > very smoothly and I now have lots of spare space in /boot. For a next time, it's probably easier (and certainly much faster) to just move /boot and its contents to the main partition and stop mounting the former /boot partition there. (And when using LVM you could then also add its space to an existing partition, but otherwise it's also not a lot of space lost...) -- Jan Claeys (please don't CC me when replying to the list)
