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Fully Move Grub to New Partition
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256 MB for /boot
and 200 GB for /
You have lots of space but /boot
directory is βspace challengedβ. Iβd suggest moving /boot
from sdb5
to /
on sdb6
.
Your current plan of moving /boot
to new partition sdb7
which is only 512 MB seems limited. Sometimes my /boot
can be many GB if Iβm testing out multiple kernels.
How to move /boot
to /
There is already an answer here:
Yes it is possible. Also its not easy. If you intent to move separated /boot partition and or / partition you should consider first of all changing the fstab entries.
If you are moving the files to new partition then donβt forget to use cp -p
while copying to preserve permissions. adjust then your /etc/fstab
to the new UUIDβs of partitions that you will use. YOu can get the partition uuid by running blkid /dev/sdXn
where X is name of the drive and n number of partition.
You can also use blkid to attach labels to your partitions and then mount via labels which is much easier read man blkid
to learn more.
After you change the partitions and adjust /etc/fstab you should run the update-grub
- available on Debian/Ubuntu script or grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
to generate a new config file and then reinstall grub into the first hdd that you bot from. grub-install --recheck /dev/sdb
Of course do not forget that when copiying mount a new / or /boot partition on /mnt and after copying all of the files mount them as / and /boot chroot and only then run update of the grub if you want things to be done correctly.