No space on the boot disk to update kernel

Question

I have installed centos 7 on vmware and seem to have ran out of space on the boot drive.

Is there a way to add more space without formatting the disk?

[root@centos7 /]# df -h /dev/sda1
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1       297M  272M   26M  92% /boot

Sarfaraz Ahmad · Answer

boot your vm with a linux livecd like Ubuntu Mate or something. once booted use gparted to shrink your / partition and grow /boot to 1G . This will work given the fact that your / has some space left.

Or there is another way.  From VMware documentation here :
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004047

For Workstation 7 and later and Player 3.x and later, you can increase the virtual disk from the GUI:
Select the virtual machine from the Inventory.
Click Edit Virtual Machine Settings.
Click Hard Disk.
Click Utilities > Expand, enter the new size, then click Expand.
Complete the steps in Increasing the size of a disk partition (1004071), so that the guest operating system is aware of the change in disk size.

add 1G using above steps. using Gparted move your partitions around and resize /boot .

AReddy · Answer

Below file consume more space on your system (/boot). if you can remove the older file you can free up some space. Make sure you have a backup before attempting remove.

initramfs-2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64.img
  System.map-2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64
  vmlinuz-2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64

No space on the boot disk to update kernel

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