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dswissmiss
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 Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 5:23 am Post subject: Increasing a partition size |
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Hi,
Everytime I upgrade to a new kernel, I have to delete the old one before I can make sure the new one even works, because /boot seems to run out of space before I can copy all the files into it (System.map etc.).
Currently my partitions look like this:
| Code: | Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 * 2551 2555 40162+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 2556 2618 506047+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 2619 9729 57119107+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 2619 3251 5084541 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 3252 9729 52034503+ 83 Linux
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I was wondering what the easiest way would be for me to increase the size of my /boot partition.
Thank you
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pjp
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| Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 5:50 am Post subject: |
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A search should turn up several other threads on the topic.
Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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BlackEdder
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| Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 10:13 am Post subject: |
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| If your using a journaled fs (ext3 or reiserfs) you could switch to ext2. That way the size of the journal (heard up to 30 mb) comes available for the kernel. |
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