expand /boot partition?

[Derek Broughton]

David Vincent wrote:

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> chris wrote:
>> I'd like to rob some space from Vista to expand /boot to like 100M or
>> even 150M.   Right now, when I get a new kernel in updates, it will
>> install but fills /boot so that I can't then purge the old kernel to
>> free up space which is what I ran into previously with a post a couple
>> weeks ago.
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>> Is it possible to do this?  Any pointers on how to go about doing
>> this?   I'm not wanting to brick my install and have to reinstall.
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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.

Surely you can't actually expand partition 2 from _the beginning_?
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derek