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 Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 6:41 pm Post subject: bois /boot partition size. Is 500MB OK? |
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I am concerned by /boot partition is too small. 500MB
On one of my gentoo systems I have the following partition setup:
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Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 2048 1026047 1024000 500M 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1026048 135243775 134217728 64G 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 135243776 1953525167 1818281392 867G 83 Linux
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Looking at the current installation guide the recommendation is a 1GB /boot partition.
I am a bit worried because I have a lot of time invested in configuring this system?
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Disks
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| Banana wrote: | The wiki is kind of the current default with a future save path.
If you do not want to change your current layout, you can easily keep the 500MB. Just keep an eye on its contents. Like, if you have multiple working kernels to choose from. |
good. thank you!
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Well, are you running out of space in /boot?
One set of kernel + initramfs + map currently takes around 35MB on my primary machine. 0.5GB is plenty for /boot. I use 128MB on systems with small disks, up from 50MB I did roughly a decade ago. Used to be enough for GRUB and 3-5 kernels for many years, until it eventually became a hassle. I think 128MB will still be enough for a few years to come.
Obviously, your numbers won't be exactly the same, and definitely won't stay the same, but it is still a decent way to set expectations. So, how many kernels do you need on speed dial?
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