Tips needed for making room for the 500M /boot on F12

Andre Costa blueser at gmail.com
Mon Nov 2 17:20:10 UTC 2009


Hi,

it looks like F12 will need a 500M /boot partition[1]. My current setup is
as follows:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             190M   32M  149M  18% /boot
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-System
                       58G  4.9G   53G   9% /
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-Home
                       20G  9.4G  8.9G  52% /home

Or, in plain words, / and /home are LVM ext4 partitions, and /boot is a
separate 200M ext3 partition. Anyone could share some tips on what I will
need to do in order to make room for the 500M /boot partition? (as safe and
non-destructively as possible, of course). Since Fedora 10 I've been
installing instead of upgrading: I reformat everything except /home and
install from scratch (which has proven to be a nice approach, YMMV). I'd
like to stick to this approach, if possible.

I would think that I could remove current /boot, shrink / by 300M using LVM
and use the extra space to create a new /boot; is this the best way to go?
If so, has anyone done such a thing? Will it be doable from anaconda during
the F12 installation?

A jump from the less than 50M needed by F11 to 500M needed by F12 seems to
be excessive IMHO (it seems to be due changes on the installation
method[2]). However, as long as there's an easy and painless way to make
room for the extra space needed, that's allright by me.

Regards,

Andre

[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F12_bugs#.2Fboot_must_be_a_minimum_of_500_MB
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510970#c15
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