GParted, shrink lvm partition to give boot more space
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I keep having issues due to my boot drive running out of space. I work with a lot of vms so it fills up pretty quick and when I clear it out often I break something I'm working on. So as it has inevitably filled up again causing me issues I want to give it some more space.
GParted is showing my lvm partition as having only 44MiB of unused space. df shows I'm only using 33% of the total space. Is there any way I can re-organise this partition so that I can free up some space to give to /boot? If not, should I grab another drive and extend the boot partition?
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I keep having issues due to my boot drive running out of space. I work with a lot of vms so it fills up pretty quick and when I clear it out often I break something I'm working on. So as it has inevitably filled up again causing me issues I want to give it some more space.
GParted is showing my lvm partition as having only 44MiB of unused space. df shows I'm only using 33% of the total space. Is there any way I can re-organise this partition so that I can free up some space to give to /boot? If not, should I grab another drive and extend the boot partition?
ll /boot
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that boot partition isn't small - what's on it? in some distros you have to manually uninstall old kernels, if you don't do that, no size will ever be enough in the long run
– frostschutz
Oct 1 at 16:44
Per @frostschutz comment/query, you probably need to clean up old kernel images or something similar. As for the LVM question, please update the question with details on the logical volumes on /dev/sda5. Output fromdf -hTPandlsblkis probably sufficient.
– 0xSheepdog
Oct 1 at 16:45
@0xSheepdog I've ran the commands and added the screenshot of the results to the post
– Shard
Oct 2 at 10:01
@frostschutz lots of different vm bits and bobs, moving over to docker soon I hope. I added a screenshot to the post
– Shard
Oct 2 at 10:02
@Shard you don't keep "vm bits and bobs" on the hosts' /boot partition. That looks very much like old kernels to me, there's even still 4.4 kernels when you're already using 4.15 and you only need the very latest one (or two) of those.
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Oct 2 at 10:29
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I keep having issues due to my boot drive running out of space. I work with a lot of vms so it fills up pretty quick and when I clear it out often I break something I'm working on. So as it has inevitably filled up again causing me issues I want to give it some more space.
GParted is showing my lvm partition as having only 44MiB of unused space. df shows I'm only using 33% of the total space. Is there any way I can re-organise this partition so that I can free up some space to give to /boot? If not, should I grab another drive and extend the boot partition?
ll /boot
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I keep having issues due to my boot drive running out of space. I work with a lot of vms so it fills up pretty quick and when I clear it out often I break something I'm working on. So as it has inevitably filled up again causing me issues I want to give it some more space.
GParted is showing my lvm partition as having only 44MiB of unused space. df shows I'm only using 33% of the total space. Is there any way I can re-organise this partition so that I can free up some space to give to /boot? If not, should I grab another drive and extend the boot partition?
ll /boot
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that boot partition isn't small - what's on it? in some distros you have to manually uninstall old kernels, if you don't do that, no size will ever be enough in the long run
– frostschutz
Oct 1 at 16:44
Per @frostschutz comment/query, you probably need to clean up old kernel images or something similar. As for the LVM question, please update the question with details on the logical volumes on /dev/sda5. Output fromdf -hTPandlsblkis probably sufficient.
– 0xSheepdog
Oct 1 at 16:45
@0xSheepdog I've ran the commands and added the screenshot of the results to the post
– Shard
Oct 2 at 10:01
@frostschutz lots of different vm bits and bobs, moving over to docker soon I hope. I added a screenshot to the post
– Shard
Oct 2 at 10:02
@Shard you don't keep "vm bits and bobs" on the hosts' /boot partition. That looks very much like old kernels to me, there's even still 4.4 kernels when you're already using 4.15 and you only need the very latest one (or two) of those.
– frostschutz
Oct 2 at 10:29
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that boot partition isn't small - what's on it? in some distros you have to manually uninstall old kernels, if you don't do that, no size will ever be enough in the long run
– frostschutz
Oct 1 at 16:44
Per @frostschutz comment/query, you probably need to clean up old kernel images or something similar. As for the LVM question, please update the question with details on the logical volumes on /dev/sda5. Output fromdf -hTPandlsblkis probably sufficient.
– 0xSheepdog
Oct 1 at 16:45
@0xSheepdog I've ran the commands and added the screenshot of the results to the post
– Shard
Oct 2 at 10:01
@frostschutz lots of different vm bits and bobs, moving over to docker soon I hope. I added a screenshot to the post
– Shard
Oct 2 at 10:02
@Shard you don't keep "vm bits and bobs" on the hosts' /boot partition. That looks very much like old kernels to me, there's even still 4.4 kernels when you're already using 4.15 and you only need the very latest one (or two) of those.
– frostschutz
Oct 2 at 10:29
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that boot partition isn't small - what's on it? in some distros you have to manually uninstall old kernels, if you don't do that, no size will ever be enough in the long run
– frostschutz
Oct 1 at 16:44
that boot partition isn't small - what's on it? in some distros you have to manually uninstall old kernels, if you don't do that, no size will ever be enough in the long run
– frostschutz
Oct 1 at 16:44
Per @frostschutz comment/query, you probably need to clean up old kernel images or something similar. As for the LVM question, please update the question with details on the logical volumes on /dev/sda5. Output from
df -hTP and lsblk is probably sufficient.– 0xSheepdog
Oct 1 at 16:45
Per @frostschutz comment/query, you probably need to clean up old kernel images or something similar. As for the LVM question, please update the question with details on the logical volumes on /dev/sda5. Output from
df -hTP and lsblk is probably sufficient.– 0xSheepdog
Oct 1 at 16:45
@0xSheepdog I've ran the commands and added the screenshot of the results to the post
– Shard
Oct 2 at 10:01
@0xSheepdog I've ran the commands and added the screenshot of the results to the post
– Shard
Oct 2 at 10:01
@frostschutz lots of different vm bits and bobs, moving over to docker soon I hope. I added a screenshot to the post
– Shard
Oct 2 at 10:02
@frostschutz lots of different vm bits and bobs, moving over to docker soon I hope. I added a screenshot to the post
– Shard
Oct 2 at 10:02
@Shard you don't keep "vm bits and bobs" on the hosts' /boot partition. That looks very much like old kernels to me, there's even still 4.4 kernels when you're already using 4.15 and you only need the very latest one (or two) of those.
– frostschutz
Oct 2 at 10:29
@Shard you don't keep "vm bits and bobs" on the hosts' /boot partition. That looks very much like old kernels to me, there's even still 4.4 kernels when you're already using 4.15 and you only need the very latest one (or two) of those.
– frostschutz
Oct 2 at 10:29
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that boot partition isn't small - what's on it? in some distros you have to manually uninstall old kernels, if you don't do that, no size will ever be enough in the long run
– frostschutz
Oct 1 at 16:44
Per @frostschutz comment/query, you probably need to clean up old kernel images or something similar. As for the LVM question, please update the question with details on the logical volumes on /dev/sda5. Output from
df -hTPandlsblkis probably sufficient.– 0xSheepdog
Oct 1 at 16:45
@0xSheepdog I've ran the commands and added the screenshot of the results to the post
– Shard
Oct 2 at 10:01
@frostschutz lots of different vm bits and bobs, moving over to docker soon I hope. I added a screenshot to the post
– Shard
Oct 2 at 10:02
@Shard you don't keep "vm bits and bobs" on the hosts' /boot partition. That looks very much like old kernels to me, there's even still 4.4 kernels when you're already using 4.15 and you only need the very latest one (or two) of those.
– frostschutz
Oct 2 at 10:29