Hans Witvliet said the following on 10/29/2008 06:44 PM:
However, the O.P. wanted to know if /boot can be resize painlessly. problem is that /boot can not be within LVM. Any other partitions can, except /boot.
Not so. You can have /boot in LVM. It just requires a LVM-aware bootloader :-) (Go google for the history and see how different systems have dealt with this over the past few years.) Late model Linux (2.6.something onwards) has this, certainly with GRUB. In fact when I did a new install of openSUSE 11.0 from the LiveCD just over a week ago, it saw I had a LVM partition and offered me this option. I could have put root, /boot and swap in the LVM. Even under Mandriva, which didn't offer this option when I first installed it, I could put swap in the LVM and did. Resizing swap isn't so easy, though ... it has to be reformatted -- Mary had a little key (It's all she could export), and all the email that she sent was opened at the Fort. -- Ron Rivest -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org