Dist-upgrading Ubuntu Server 18.04 located in remote site?

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 07 Feb 2022 19:33:20 +0100 bo.berglund at gmail.com, "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Mon,  7 Feb 2022 09:25:25 -0500 (EST), Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
> wrote:
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> >Normally you would not need or want to do this *every time*. *BUT* if your
> >/boot FS is small (and it might be when using a VM) AND you want to do an
> >release upgrade, it might make sense to do this to make your /boot FS as lean
> >as possible.  This is a *special case*.  The *op* was worried about running 
> >out of space and crashing the release upgrade, which could be a disaster.
> 
> Yes this is correct.
> What I wonder about now is why Ubuntu at original install time decided to make
> such a tiny boot partition?

Are you sure you didn't ask for it?

> 
> Is there any way to enlarge the boot partition or move /boot to be located below
> / instead (there is pleny of room in the / partition...
> Right now it is on a different disk and mounted into /boot...

That is not actually the default partitioning... By *default* the Ubuntu
installer creates a single root (/) partition and a swap partition.

> 
> Again, this is in a VMWare ESX environment...

It might have something to do with how the VMWare ESX sets up Ubuntu -- there 
might have been a some sort of default container or something...

> 
> 

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