Usually in Linux from 100 to 150 MB enough for /boot am NOT sure about Fedora 12, and If you want increase the size space my advice do it for /home and /var. Before you start make sure you take the backup from your data.
--- Best Regards, Waleed Harbi ------------------------------------------------ Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Andre Costa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > it looks like F12 will need a 500M /boot partition[1]. My current setup is > as follows: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda2 190M 32M 149M 18% /boot > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-System > 58G 4.9G 53G 9% / > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-Home > 20G 9.4G 8.9G 52% /home > > Or, in plain words, / and /home are LVM ext4 partitions, and /boot is a > separate 200M ext3 partition. Anyone could share some tips on what I will > need to do in order to make room for the 500M /boot partition? (as safe and > non-destructively as possible, of course). Since Fedora 10 I've been > installing instead of upgrading: I reformat everything except /home and > install from scratch (which has proven to be a nice approach, YMMV). I'd > like to stick to this approach, if possible. > > I would think that I could remove current /boot, shrink / by 300M using LVM > and use the extra space to create a new /boot; is this the best way to go? > If so, has anyone done such a thing? Will it be doable from anaconda during > the F12 installation? > > A jump from the less than 50M needed by F11 to 500M needed by F12 seems to > be excessive IMHO (it seems to be due changes on the installation > method[2]). However, as long as there's an easy and painless way to make > room for the extra space needed, that's allright by me. > > Regards, > > Andre > > [1] > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F12_bugs#.2Fboot_must_be_a_minimum_of_500_MB > [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510970#c15 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines >
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