Closed drn05r closed 2 years ago
we don't have much room to work with at the start of the disk on VMS:
root@vms:~# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 244M 0 part /boot
/boot/efi is relatively empty, only contains a copy of grub, so I think we could safely delete both partitions, then re-create a much smaller ESP (50MB perhaps?), and allocate the rest of that space to /boot
I've repartitioned VMS so that it now BIOS boots (like the rest of our servers), and has a much bigger /boot:
sown@vms:~$ df -h /boot
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 728M 151M 524M 23% /boot
This also means our PXE / rescue setup works, which didn't before with EFI booting
The /boot partition is now barely big enough for three kernels. We need to increase this so it can easily store at least 5 kernels at once.