how to increase /root space

[Andrew Mathews]

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Swapana Ghosh wrote:
| Hi
|
|  if i want to increase the partition space under the
| /boot    what procedure i need to follow?  Recently
| our server /boot partion is 99% full,
|
|
| [root at server boot]# df
| Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available
| Use% Mounted on
| /dev/sda7               505605    215026    264475
| 45% /
| /dev/sda3                23333     21846       283
| 99% /boot
| none                    644860         0    644860
| 0% /dev/shm
|
|   The server is redhat 7.3 kernel  2.4.18-27.7.x
|
| Thanks in advance
| -Swapna

It depends. What filesystem are you using? (xfs_growfs for an xfs
filesystem is one example)
How much free disk space do you have left?

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