[ILUG] Boot partition too small - need grub advice

[Ruairi Hickey]

Then run grub
At the grub prompt type root (hd0,1)
				setup (hd0)

and your done....

Ruairi

-----Original Message-----
From: ilug-bounces at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-bounces at linux.ie] On Behalf Of John
A. Kinsella
Sent: 16 June 2008 09:57
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: [ILUG] Boot partition too small - need grub advice

Hi all.

My boot partition is too small - Ubuntu Synaptic Package Manager reports:

"The upgrade aborts now. The upgrade needs a total of 62.9M free space on 
disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additional 3921k of disk space on 
'/boot'. "

>df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2              1919892    569659   1247833  32% /
/dev/sdb1                97826     34996     57611  38% /boot


My first thought was to dispense with the /boot partition entirely;

cp -R /boot /BOOT
umount /boot
mv /BOOT /boot

Then edit /etc/fstab to remove /boot entry.

But then I started wondering how grub would react.
Does grub care whether /boot is a separate partition - do I need to 
regenerate the various grub config files before rebooting?

Thanks

John

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