how to increase /root space

[ronnie gauthier]

Swapana,
Each time you upgrade with up2date and the kernal is updated you add files to
boot. Clean up the old kernals and you will once again have the space you
need. Remember to make lilo or grub relect the changes.

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 07:48:30 -0700 - "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote
the following
Re: Re: how to increase /root space

>On 08/29/03 23:26, 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,
>
>I'm really wondering how you manage to fill up /boot, when its contents are 
>static.  I don't see why you need to increase the size of /boot in the 
>first place.
>
>> 
>> 
>> [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
>
>don't believe in applying Redhat's updates i see?  THat kernel is old.
>
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