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. -- Knowledge is power. --Thomas Hobbes -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org