Bug#968441: partman-auto: Default /boot partition size is too small

[Pablo R <debbug@uzy.me>]

Package: partman-auto
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I recently assisted a friend in her installation of Debian over the phone.
Going through manual partitionning over the phone would be too bothersome so I told her to use the automated partitionning option that uses a whole disk with LVM and encryption.

Everything went well except that a few weeks later my friend's computer would not boot: apparently, a kernel update had gone wrong because the /boot partition was full.
Of course my friend did not see the problem during the update because she did not know she had to pay attention to that.

I had the same problem myself a bit more than 10 years ago, and since then I always do partitioning manually during installs so I did not know until then that too small /boot partition was still a thing.

The default should probably be like 1GB or even 2GB to be safe :).


Cheers,

PS: I removed the system information that were automatically included by reportbug below as they correspond to my system and not the one I'm reporting about.