I recently did a "apt update ; apt upgrade" and it died for lack of space in /boot when trying to install the latest kernel.
I purged a couple of old kernel packages (still present in the 'stable' repo, so they weren't obsolete) to make enough space and tried again. Worked this time, but I would have liked to have the old kernels around as fallbacks just in case of a regression... Here's the disk layout: rbthomas@milli:~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 111.8G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi ├─sda2 8:2 0 244M 0 part /boot └─sda3 8:3 0 111.1G 0 part ├─debian--vg-root 253:0 0 28G 0 lvm / ├─debian--vg-swap_1 253:1 0 7.9G 0 lvm [SWAP] └─debian--vg-home 253:2 0 75.2G 0 lvm /home sdb 8:16 1 239G 0 disk └─sdb1 8:17 1 239G 0 part /media/rbthomas/Spare mmcblk0 179:0 0 238.3G 0 disk └─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 238.3G 0 part /media/rbthomas/Downloads rbthomas@milli:~$ rbthomas@milli:~$ df -HTP | grep -v tmpfs Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/debian--vg-root ext4 30G 9.9G 19G 36% / /dev/sda2 ext2 248M 78M 158M 34% /boot /dev/sda1 vfat 536M 144k 536M 1% /boot/efi /dev/mapper/debian--vg-home ext4 79G 4.4G 71G 6% /home /dev/sdb1 ext4 252G 63M 239G 1% /media/rbthomas/Spare /dev/mmcblk0p1 ext4 251G 63M 238G 1% /media/rbthomas/Downloads rbthomas@milli:~$ What's the best way to increase the size of /boot ? I can easily create a gig or so of space by a shrink/resize of /home, but how do I add that space to /dev/sda2 ? I can't just move up the end of /dev/sda2 = start of /dev/sda3 without backing up and restoring, can I? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Rick
