[Swlug] Boot directory

[Colin Law]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 10:53, Bill Thomson via Swlug
<swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
> 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!

I would not do it.  You would have to boot from a live image as you
could not move it while it is mounted.  No doubt it is possible but
one slip of the finger could result in a trashed system.  My
suggestion was for the future if you were building a new system.

If you wanted to do something that is slightly less prone to disaster
then I would boot from a live gparted image, and increase the size of
the boot partition significantly.  You would likely have to shrink and
move the adjacent partition to do that.  In any case make sure you
have up to date backups of everything important.  But you have those
anyway of course.

Colin

>
> Many thanks Colin!
>
> Bill
>
> On 18 Sep 2019 10:10, Colin Law via Swlug <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 10:04, Bill Thomson via Swlug
> <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Colin, that seems to have done the trick! I've freed up in excess of 2Gb in the boot directory - thank you!
> >
>
> For future reference I believe it is generally considered better not
> to have a separate partition for /boot as it can give rise to this
> problem.  Just put /boot in the main root (/) partition so that it
> will not fill up.  If it /boot actually fills up completely it can be
> a big pain to recover as you can't then run autoremove, you have to
> manually remove the old kernels.
>
> Colin
>
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