In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > I have landed myself with a problem on one of my machines, in that it > has insufficient space on the /boot filesystem to cope well with kernel > upgrades. The installation was done a few releases ago, and there are > four disks, three identical and one larger, configured as follows: > > Each disk, partition 1: 192512 sectors. RAID 1. Used as /boot, 62% used. > Each disk, partition 2: 195311616 sectors. RAID 6. LVM - see below > Three small disks, partition 3: 117073920 sectors. RAID 0. > Larger disk, partition 3: 781266969 sectors. > > No gaps or unallocated space exists on the disks. > > RAID 0 and linear addition of last partition is used as scratch space > at present. This can be dispensed with, if necessary, and in any case > currently stands just 1% used. > > LVM setup: > > Single vg, holding: > > /home, 54684MiB, 1% used. > /, 1512MiB, 27% used. > swap, 3812MiB > /tmp, 15260MiB, 1% used. > /usr, 38144MiB, 12% used. > /var, 77316MiB, 35% used. > > No currently unallocated space.
You can try booting directly into / on LVM, if grub allows it. -- Valentin
