resizing partition

Is it possible to resize an existing partition / or /boot

I am trying to upgrade kernel and I believe /boot is out of space


Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup_ID_25083-LogVol1
1008M 937M 20M 98% /
/dev/sda3 99M 66M 29M 70% /boot
none 1004M 0 1004M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/VolGroup_ID_25083-LogVol2
4.8G 42M 4.6G 1% /tmp
/dev/mapper/VolGroup_ID_25083-LogVol5
117G 2.5G 109G 3% /usr
/dev/mapper/VolGroup_ID_25083-LogVol4
29G 997M 27G 4% /var
/dev/mapper/VolGroup_ID_25083-LogVolHome
114G 2.6G 106G 3% /home
[root@suse-www2 modules]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 293.0 GB, 293097963520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 35633 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 4 32098+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 5 15302 122881185 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 * 15303 15315 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 15316 35633 163204335 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 15316 35633 163204303+ 8e Linux LVM


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