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

[Waleed Harbi]

Usually in Linux from 100 to 150 MB enough for /boot am NOT sure about
Fedora 12, and If you want increase the size space my advice do it for /home
and /var. Before you start make sure you take the backup from your data.

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Waleed Harbi
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On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Andre Costa <blueser at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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