Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1632 mails)

[Anders Norrbring <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Patrick skrev:
> For as long as I can remember I've set up a /boot partition with 15MB.  
> Recently, however, routine kernel security updates (Suse 10.2)  need slightly 
> more space on /boot to perform the updates.  What would be the safest way to 
> get around this?
>
> I've thought of moving some symlinked files to another partition, performing 
> update and then returning file to /boot.  For example, vmlinuz points to 
> vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.1-default which is on /boot.
>
>  vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.1-default
>
> If I move vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.1-default to root "/", update and move it back 
> then I should be OK.  Is there something I might be overlooking that could 
> lead to a catastrophe?
>
> Also, this process is an awkward workaround.  Is there a better approach?
>
> TIA, Patrick

With a risk of suggesting the obvious; enlarge the /boot partition..

Anders.

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