Thanks for the response!  My /boot partition is 239Mb, which is just small enough that a particularly chunky kernel and an upgrade to it is too much.

I am not in a big hurry to delete the kernel image I am actively using to make space for the upgraded one - 'cause every 5 years or so I need to boot from an old kernel, and I'd like to be able to.

On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 at 11:37, Kevin Cozens via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 2021-10-07 10:45 p.m., William Witteman via talk wrote:
> When I installed Debian on my current computer, I (foolishly) let the
> install script partition my disk.  Now I have a /boot partition that is too
> small.

How small is your /boot partition? Are you using it for more than just the
kernel files needed to boot your system?

I have a /boot that is way bigger than I really need but I wanted room to
keep multiple kernels so I can test out different distros that may require
different kernels. Allowing 100M per kernel should be more than enough
space. I currently have two kernels and they only use 153M of disk space.

> The system is using lvm

I don't use lvm so I can't help with that. All I can say is that when I have
needed to adjust partition sizes I use gparted. That might not help you.

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