Rebasing Fails Due to Small /boot Partition

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to rebase from Bluefin (default) to Bluefin-DX, but my /boot partition is too small. The process fails due to insufficient space in bootfs.

I tried to resize the /boot partition, but I couldn’t extend it. Is there any way to proceed with the rebase without reinstalling the entire system?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

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You are in a rough spot. From your image, your /boot partition is only 332 MB. By default fedora’s installer makes a 1GB partition.

You appear to have multiple systems on this one disk. I see two ESPs and you should only have one.

If you are willing to do some surgery, you could delete the partition (Looks like a second ESP) in from of the ext4 partition that is boot. Delete the ext4 partition that is the bootfs for your bluefin install. Combine those two together and edit the /etc/fstab to have this be your new bootfs.

Then make sure the Original ESP at the beginning of your disk also has the contents of the ESP for bluefin.

Honestly… I would reinstall since there is a lot that can go wrong and not dual boot on the same disk.

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Thank you for your suggestion. You’re right, i have two OS on one disk. If want to reinstall & single boot Bluefin, should I wipe both OS (including its ESP) first, or should I use automatic partitioning?

Kinda worried about partitioning because i have lot of data here. :sweat_smile:

If you do automatical partitioning it will wipe the whole disk