FC12 Boot partition too small to Upgrade to FC13

[Tom H]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:31 PM, M A Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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.

One earlier list suggestion had been to keep just one kernel in /boot
and to change the reserved-blocks-percentage to 0% with tune2fs to get
a few more (supposedly enough) MB for pre-upgrade to run.