[olug] Insufficient space on /boot to upgrade F13-F14

Obi-Wan obiwan at jedi.com
Sat May 28 03:27:06 UTC 2011


I'm currently running F13 on a Dell XPS 1210 laptop with a ~80GB drive
partitioned as follows:

Device    Boot Start  End   Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1    *     1   33   265041 83 Linux (/boot, ext3)
/dev/sda2         34 9285 74316690 83 Linux (/ - encrypted ext3)
/dev/sda3       9286 9546 2096482+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

# df -m
Filesystem           1M-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/luks-1c640d61-ab9a-4fcc-8251-c1c7584f2b11
                         71436     15171     55541  22% /
/dev/sda1                  251        45       193  19% /boot


Only the actively running kernel is installed in /boot.  When I try to
upgrade from F13 to F14 using the package update GUI, it complains that
there is insufficient space in /boot, and refuses to go on.  Before the
attempted upgrade, only 13% was in use.  I've since added a kernel
upgraded within F13.  There isn't anything left for me to delete to
free up more space. It seems silly for the upgrade to require
dramatically more space in /boot than does general day-to-day
operation. Isn't there any way I can tell it to use /tmp or /var for
its scratch space?

Is there any way to get around this using my current partitioning?

If not, is there any way I can steal another 256MB from swap (sda3) and
add it to /boot (sda1), even though an encrypted partition (/, sda2)
sits between them on the disk?

-- 
Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth                             obiwan at jedi.com
   The stuff of earth competes for the allegiance I owe only to the
     Giver of all good things, so if I stand, let me stand on the
       promise that You will pull me through.  -- Rich Mullins



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