Hi Prasanna, You only merge free space with a partition that is nearby. If there are partitions in between they cannot be merged. The 200Mb free space must be next to the /boot partition.
Make sure you allot some more space for /boot (you may need it in future while installing multiple distros etc). You cannot resize a mounted partition I guess so use a live CD to resize /boot partition. Hope this helps, PrasannaKumar On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Prasanna Venkadesh <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > I have 320gb hdd, and have separate partitions for /, /boot and /home. > > Using Fedora 16, I have created the /boot partition with size of 100mb > initially thought, it would be enough to handle it. But the problem arose > when I tried to update using yum update. > > It said /boot partition become full at the midst of the update and the > update could not be completed. So now I have to resize the /boot partition. > > I have got 200mb freespace and I wanted to merge it with /boot partition > in-order to extend the size of the /boot. > > I wanted to know how to increase the size of /boot with the available 200mb > free space. > > Screenshot link:- http://i.imgur.com/02Isu.png > > Note:- Using gparted and trying to resize the /boot doesn't show the extra > 200mb freespace to extend. > > Guide me, how can I achieve it. > > Do I need to delete the /boot and merge it with freespace and then create > /boot again? If so, how to create /boot again? > > I also googled but could not find simple explanation for it. > > -- > Regards, > Prasanna Venkadesh > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > PuduvaiLUG Mailing List: > http://puduvailug.wordpress.com/mailing-list-guidelines/ > FOSS Jobs all over India: http://fossjobs.in > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
