How I Resized My Linux Boot Partition

I recently ran into a classic problem on my long-running Fedora installation: my /boot partition was full. Back when I set up the system (around Fedora 20), 400MiB was more than enough. Now, with modern kernels, it can barely hold two versions, let alone the default three that Fedora manages. This meant I couldn’t run system updates. The challenge was that my disk was partitioned with /dev/sda1 for /boot and /dev/sda2 as a single large LVM physical volume for my /root and /home filesystems....

October 31, 2025 · 3 min · 616 words · kenno