How do I make resize my /'s /boot partition for more free disk space?
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From: Ant on 25 Feb 2010 17:50 Hello. My very old Debian/Linux workstation/desktop box (first installed it on 9/24/2004 and kept it updated daily and only had one reinstall (accidently ran fsck without unmounting a few years ago) -- still amazing that it runs today) is unable to install the latest Kernel (v2.6.32) Debian package due to free limited disk space in / (actually /boot) partition: $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 280003 173227 92320 66% / tmpfs 1297724 0 1297724 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10240 264 9976 3% /dev tmpfs 1297724 0 1297724 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda5 14421344 2759732 10929052 21% /home /dev/hda6 4807056 3620424 942448 80% /usr /dev/hda7 964500 721228 194276 79% /var /dev/hda8 964500 17676 897828 2% /tmp /dev/hda9 4807056 206076 4356796 5% /usr/local /dev/hda11 47383396 19522168 25454292 44% /extra /dev/hda12 918322 16452 852874 2% /others (parted) p Model: ST380011A (ide) Disk /dev/hda: 80.0GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 296MB 296MB primary ext3 2 296MB 80.0GB 79.7GB extended 5 296MB 15.3GB 15.0GB logical ext3 6 15.3GB 20.3GB 5001MB logical ext3 7 20.3GB 21.3GB 1003MB logical ext3 8 21.3GB 22.3GB 1003MB logical ext3 9 22.3GB 27.3GB 5001MB logical ext3 12 27.3GB 28.3GB 1003MB logical ext3 10 28.3GB 30.7GB 2418MB logical linux-swap(v1) 11 30.7GB 80.0GB 49.3GB logical ext3 http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6544/screenshot1qs.png for a screen capture of GParted. How can I resize my /'s /boot to get more free disk space without getting another bigger HDD to copy over or reinstalling from scratch? Can I use KNOPPIX v6.2.1 to do it or is it not possible? I used to use PowerQuest's PartitionMagic for DOS and Windows to resize, but I wasn't sure if this method works in Linux too. Thank you in advnace. :) -- "I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization" --Archy the Cockroach from Don Marquis' "Archy and Mehitabel" book ("Certain Maxims of Archy" poem) /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil./Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: philpi(a)earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant(a)zimage.com Ant is/was listening to a song on his home computer: SYRSA - Syrsa - Cythas - Eclipse (ID: 313433)
From: Lusotec on 25 Feb 2010 18:23 Ant wrote: > How can I resize my /'s /boot to get more free disk space without > getting another bigger HDD to copy over or reinstalling from scratch? The best advice I can give you is to make a *full* backup (you do have backups right?), and then use LVM to partition your HDD and then restore the system from the backups. LVM is far more flexible than the legacy partition system and you can allocate and extend storage for the various partitions as needed. This way you avoid your current situation of having free storage but in the wrong partitions. Regards.
From: GangGreene on 25 Feb 2010 18:44 Ant wrote: > Hello. > > My very old Debian/Linux workstation/desktop box (first installed it on > 9/24/2004 and kept it updated daily and only had one reinstall > (accidently ran fsck without unmounting a few years ago) -- still > amazing that it runs today) is unable to install the latest Kernel > (v2.6.32) Debian package due to free limited disk space in / (actually > /boot) partition: > > $ df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 280003 173227 92320 66% / > tmpfs 1297724 0 1297724 0% /lib/init/rw > udev 10240 264 9976 3% /dev > tmpfs 1297724 0 1297724 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda5 14421344 2759732 10929052 21% /home > /dev/hda6 4807056 3620424 942448 80% /usr > /dev/hda7 964500 721228 194276 79% /var > /dev/hda8 964500 17676 897828 2% /tmp > /dev/hda9 4807056 206076 4356796 5% /usr/local > /dev/hda11 47383396 19522168 25454292 44% /extra > /dev/hda12 918322 16452 852874 2% /others > > (parted) p > Model: ST380011A (ide) > Disk /dev/hda: 80.0GB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partition Table: msdos > > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags > 1 32.3kB 296MB 296MB primary ext3 > 2 296MB 80.0GB 79.7GB extended > 5 296MB 15.3GB 15.0GB logical ext3 > 6 15.3GB 20.3GB 5001MB logical ext3 > 7 20.3GB 21.3GB 1003MB logical ext3 > 8 21.3GB 22.3GB 1003MB logical ext3 > 9 22.3GB 27.3GB 5001MB logical ext3 > 12 27.3GB 28.3GB 1003MB logical ext3 > 10 28.3GB 30.7GB 2418MB logical linux-swap(v1) > 11 30.7GB 80.0GB 49.3GB logical ext3 > > http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6544/screenshot1qs.png for a screen > capture of GParted. > > How can I resize my /'s /boot to get more free disk space without > getting another bigger HDD to copy over or reinstalling from scratch? > Can I use KNOPPIX v6.2.1 to do it or is it not possible? I used to use > PowerQuest's PartitionMagic for DOS and Windows to resize, but I wasn't > sure if this method works in Linux too. > > Thank you in advnace. :) Dude....You don't have a boot partition.
From: Henrik Carlqvist on 26 Feb 2010 02:15 Ant <ant(a)zimage.comANT> wrote: > On 2/25/2010 4:16 PM PT, Don Piven typed: >> Um, what exactly are you trying to do here? According to this, you don't >> have a separate /boot partition, and you have ~90 MB available on your >> root partition, where your system files are. > I am trying to install/add another Kernel package, but it tells me that > I don't have enough disk space during it. I watched /dev/hda1 go to zero > during the installation. :( > No, just upgrading the Kernel (2.6.32). I am still using 2.6.30 (uname > -a showed "Linux ANTian 2.6.30-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Dec 4 00:53:20 UTC 2009 > i686 GNU/Linux"). Unless you have a good explanation why the package fills up more than 90 MB of your root partition you can probably consider the package to be broken. A precompiled kernel which usually resides in /boot doesn't take more space than a few megabytes. The kernel source might take a few hundreds of megabytes, but that should not be installed in your root partition, it is usually installed below /usr. regards Henrik -- The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is: hc3(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers: root(a)localhost postmaster(a)localhost
From: Sven Joachim on 26 Feb 2010 06:13
On 2010-02-26 11:50 +0100, david wrote: > You don't have a separate /boot partition. You created it in root, it > looks like. (You shouldn't have done that). Could you elaborate? True, a separate /boot partition would save some space on /, but not that much. > You could create a separate partition for other stuff you have in root, / > lib for example) and move stuff out of root. Great idea indeed, have you actually tried that?! Please stop giving clueless advice that would render the system unbootable if followed. Sven |