Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2113 mails)

[Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) said the following on 10/29/2008 09:13 AM:

> Is it possible to use opensuse 11 software installed via YAST ie no
> hand compiling, to increase the size of the /boot partition,
> NON-DESTRUCTIVELY ie without reinstalling the whole system again?

Yes and no.
It is for me since I have my whole system running under LVM.
That includes /boot and /

Not all systems will allow you to have /boot and / under LVM but Suse is
one of them, its bootloaders can handle LVM.  Some installations can't.

If you are running RAID and have a situation where you may need to play
around with partition sizes, either grow or 'shrink to fit' after an
over-pessimistic install, then LVM is wonderful.

Some file systems allow the expansion or contraction while mounted,
others don't.  Consult your manual.   I have had copy of the suse manual
on LVM that I printed off years ago, long before I moved to SUSE, so I'm
not sure of its URL.  I printed it because other packages, while they
include LVM, don't offer documentation or things like YAST for managing
them.


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