Hi John,
Does your "Boot" partition contain just /boot, or it's the root of
your Linux system? If it's just /boot, you can unmount the partition,
stretch it with Gparted, and then remount it.
If it's your root file system, it would be safer to reboot it with
a Live distro and use Gparted to stretch it. There are ways to stretch
certain root file systems while the system is running using fdisk to
change the partition boundaries, and then grow the file system to the
new boundary (I do this with XFS), but I wouldn't recommend it as you
can easily break your system.
Alex
On 04/04/2017 09:32 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Denis recently had a problem with insufficient space remaining on his
> boot partition. I didn't participate in the discussion because I didn't
> have any suggestions, plus I thought it wouldn't be a problem for me.
> Well, I was wrong. I've just been bitten by the same thing. I used
> 'sudo apt-get autoremove' and I now have about 1.4 GB free on Boot, so
> I'm OK for the time being, but I need to do a more serious repair.
>
> My Xubuntu 14.04 is installed on a 512GB mSATA drive which is
> partitiioned:
>
> 25GBBoot
> 59GBFree space
> Home350GB
> 46GBFree space
>
> I set it up this way when I originally installed the OS because I
> thought I might one day want to install a second OS and dual boot. That
> hasn't happened and now I doubt that it ever will. I'd like to add about
> half of the first free space (59GB) to Boot and the remainder to Home.
> And Home is currently about 70% used, so I'd like to add all of the
> second free space to Home as well.
>
> Can Gparted do this without messing up Boot and Home? And am I correct
> in assuming that if I can do this with Gparted I will need to do it
> with a bootable DVD or USB stick, rather than the Gparted that is
> currently installed? And would it be more intelligent of me to wait for
> the next Clinic to do this? (I think the answer to the last question is
> 'yes,' considering that it is only 12 days from now.)
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