FC12 Boot partition too small to Upgrade to FC13

[M A Young]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Tod Thomas wrote:

> I need to upgrade to Fedora 13 but my boot partition is too small (200 MB) 
> and it needs to be at least 500 MB.  The boot partition is followed by an LVM 
> volume goup composed of a 145 GB root LV and a 5GB swap LV. How can I 
> 'safely' decrease the size of the volume group and increase the size of the 
> physical boot partition?

You can resize a physical volume of a volume group with the pvresize 
command, though this only resizes the contents and you will need to use 
something like fdisk or parted to resize the partition to match.

However this will free up space at the end of the physical volume 
partition, and to make the boot partition bigger you probably want to move 
the start which is rather more tricky.

 	Michael Young