[clue] A wish for movable file systems.

[David L. Anselmi]

I kinda like GRUB2, compared to GRUB (which I used little) and LILO (which I used instead of GRUB to 
support /boot on LVM).  But the installed image seems to be growing, which means it doesn't fit in 
the 32kB available at the beginning of my disks (they're old and 32kB used to be standard).

I tried finding a way to shrink down the image, removing things that weren't essential.  But that 
seems really hard, or at least poorly documented.

So I'm currently keeping my boot loaders on other media.  Not terribly convenient.

The difficult part of this is that making the free blocks at the beginning of the disk larger 
requires moving the beginning of the first partition, which is LVM and probably contains the 
beginning of an ext3/4 file system.  Scooting a file system further back on the disk doesn't seem 
very possible.

It occurs to me that perhaps I can move the LVM extents at the beginning of the partition and then 
change the start of the partition without ext3/4 being aware of the change.  So that might be nice, 
but I suspect I'll have to have plenty of sleep in order to get it right.  I guess practicing on 
something other than / is a good idea.

Thanks for listening.
Dave