<div dir='auto'>Thanks Colin, I'll abide by that. The system is working well at the moment and the old adage "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" is a wise saying.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Many thanks 🙂</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Bill</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 Sep 2019 10:59, Colin Law via Swlug <swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:<br type="attribution" /><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 10:53, Bill Thomson via Swlug<br>
<swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Perhaps you might like to tell me exactly how I go about moving the /boot partition into the main partition? I could always do with the advice!</p>
<p dir="ltr">I would not do it. You would have to boot from a live image as you<br>
could not move it while it is mounted. No doubt it is possible but<br>
one slip of the finger could result in a trashed system. My<br>
suggestion was for the future if you were building a new system.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If you wanted to do something that is slightly less prone to disaster<br>
then I would boot from a live gparted image, and increase the size of<br>
the boot partition significantly. You would likely have to shrink and<br>
move the adjacent partition to do that. In any case make sure you<br>
have up to date backups of everything important. But you have those<br>
anyway of course.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Colin</p>
<p dir="ltr">><br>
> Many thanks Colin!<br>
><br>
> Bill<br>
><br>
> On 18 Sep 2019 10:10, Colin Law via Swlug <swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:<br>
><br>
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 10:04, Bill Thomson via Swlug<br>
> <swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > Hi Colin, that seems to have done the trick! I've freed up in excess of 2Gb in the boot directory - thank you!<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> For future reference I believe it is generally considered better not<br>
> to have a separate partition for /boot as it can give rise to this<br>
> problem. Just put /boot in the main root (/) partition so that it<br>
> will not fill up. If it /boot actually fills up completely it can be<br>
> a big pain to recover as you can't then run autoremove, you have to<br>
> manually remove the old kernels.<br>
><br>
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