F12 work around for out of space on /boot for preupgrade?

[Tony Nelson]

On 09-11-18 18:36:51, Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 14:16 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > There are ways to move LVM partitions around to make more space 
> > for, and then resize, an existing physical /boot partition... but 
> > none of them are pretty.  (Resizing other partitions dynamically?  
> > Now *that* is easy with LVM, something you can't say otherwise.)
> 
> What about, shrink your LVM partition, add a new large boot 
> partition, use that for the installation, then leave the new one as-
> is, or move the real boot stuff into your old boot partition, then 
> get rid of the new one?

That would work if /boot follows the LVM partition, but not if it is 
before.  But without parted / gparted support, one must still know to 
have free space on the LVM (not allocated to any LV), use pvresize, and 
then shrink the basic partition.  And this is the easy case, where the 
partition doesn't need to be moved.

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