On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 10:45:57PM -0400, William Witteman via talk wrote: > When I installed Debian on my current computer, I (foolishly) let the > install script partition my disk. Now I have a /boot partition that is too > small. > > The system is using lvm, and I have enough free space on /home that I can > reduce the size of /home by a couple of Gb, and then in theory allocate > that to my ridiculously undersized /boot partition. > > Back in the old days I knew how to do this, but with lvm I don't know how, > and of the (many) questions and answers that I have found I haven't seen > one that inspires confidence. > > So... > > 1) Do I need to make a boot drive? > 2) Does anyone know a nice set of instructions?
Well you may in fact need a boot drive since you are using LVM for / and something has to boot the system to a ramdisk to start lvm to mount root. gparted livecd can definitely expand LVM PV, but not sure about shrinking them. What is the current partition table? -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
