expand /boot partition?

[Steven Davies-Morris]

chris wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:25 AM, David Vincent
> <dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca> wrote:
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>> I'd boot systemrescuecd and then use gparted to resize the partitions.
>> then I'd double check the UUIDs of each partition to make sure they
>> still matched what are in /etc/fstab.  That might be redundant but I
>> like to be safe.
>>
>> http://www.sysresccd.org/
>>
>> Need any pointers on how to do all that?
>>
> 
> 
> Thanks for the info.  I'll take a look.  I'm guessing that you just
> run vol_id on the partition to see if the UUID changed after you do
> the resize.  Right?

I'll second using gparted.  I have the stand-alone CD download from a 
few months back.  It does a great job.  I recently used it to resize 
partions on my laptop to accommodate a new Win2K install, and get rid 
of a bunch of space on some NTFS drives that I then gave to Ubuntu.
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