Re: Subsume boot partition into root partition - how?

Dave Royal wrote:

The recent kernel update to 11.0 failed because my /boot partition is too
small. (It was big enough for 10.2.) Rather than shuffling partitions
about maybe I'll subsume it into the root partition.

Is there any reason not to do that?

No.
I have none for years.

What is the easiest safe way of doing it?

Basically you copy files from /boot partition to /boot directory,
remove entries from fstab, and rerun grub installation that should point to
root partition, instead on boot.
That all has to be done in one run, before turning computer off, otherwise
you will need installation DVD to boot it again ;-)

To give more detailed instructions, I would need output of command
mount | grep boot
that should show is /boot mounted, and
cat /etc/fstab
to see where is current boot and root partition.

/boot is currently ext2 (it was set up yonks ago) and / is ext3.

File system doesn't matter.

--
Regards, Rajko
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands.
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