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Oracle Linux template kernel update - /boot partition too small

734084Jul 26 2012 — edited Jul 30 2012
Hi, all~

I have an older Linux VM template that I'm attempting to update via a local yum repository.

This update includes updates to Oracle's unbreakable enterprise kernel and is failing with the following message:
Error Summary
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Disk Requirements:
  At least 7MB needed on the /boot filesystem.
And this does indeed look like a valid issue, as the /boot apparently came across as only 31M from the template:
[root@bmsvasv2 ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda2            3.1G  844M  2.3G  28% /
/dev/xvda1             31M   25M  4.6M  85% /boot
/dev/mapper/rootvg-lv_home
                     1008M   35M  923M   4% /home
/dev/mapper/rootvg-lv_tmp
                      2.0G   68M  1.9G   4% /tmp
/dev/mapper/rootvg-lv_usr
                      2.0G  1.8G  167M  92% /usr
/dev/mapper/rootvg-lv_var
                     1008M  763M  194M  80% /var
So, I guess I'm wondering whether it's possible and how one would go about increasing the size of the /boot partition...?

Thanks in advance,

- Nathan
This post has been answered by ratdude on Jul 27 2012
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