On 30 Dec 2009 at 18:14, Marko Vojinovic wrote: From: Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> Send reply to: vmarko@xxxxxxxxx To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Very BAD preupgrade experience. Date sent: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:14:07 +0000 Copies to: "Michael D. Setzer II" <mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > On Wednesday 30 December 2009 13:43:20 Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > > Just had a bad experience with preupgrade. > [snip] > > Preupgraded started find downloading files, but eventually came up with a > > message that it needed more space on /boot. > [snip] > > It would have been nicer to get a message to either no do a preupgrade, or > > to have a way to resize the systems. Would have tired partimage, but it > > doesn't resize lvm, so that would be another problem. > > If you are using LVM, I would expect resizing partitions to be easy and > painless, right? LVM was actually introduced precisely for this purpose, > AFAIK. > Problem is that the /boot is a separate regular partition. /dev/sda1 The root and swap partitions are LVM in the /dev/sda2. The LVM options don't seem to help in this setup, it would require reducing the size of the LVM inside the physical partition, and then resizing the physical parititon, and then moving the physical partition. Might be possible, but I don't know all the commands. > Once preupgrade complained it needs more space for /boot, I would use LVM > tools to expand /boot accordingly, then start again. That said, please note > that I never upgrade Fedora (always reformat and do a clean install), and that > I don't use LVM (always manually create a custom bare-bones partition layout > to suit my needs). IOW, I may not be the proper person to give the above > advice. ;-) I've thought of not using LVM, since I don't see needing the on the fly options it allows for my setup, but it is the default setup. If they where regular paritions, using partedmagic or other program would make it easy to move the partitions. Thanks for the info. > > HTH, :-) > Marko > +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 9,097,658.037095 | EINSTEIN 3,520,719.980851 ROSETTA 1,595,232.557405 | ABC 8,703.320170 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
