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Bug#951709: /boot should get a bigger share of disk in default installation



On Thu, 2020-02-20 at 18:50 +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
> Version: 20190702+deb10u3
> Severity: important
> 
> With initrd around 60+ MBs, 236 MB /boot in a 300 GB hard disk can hold 
> only 2 versions of the kernels at the same time. When installing a 3rd 
> kernel /boot gets filled up. I think it should be able to store at 
> least 3 kernels and ideally 4 or even more.
>
> The paritions were created automatically with just /home in a separate 
> partition with lvm by debian buster installer.

I agree; the default size of /boot is now too small.  I think we should
normally allocate at least 500 MB to it.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Unix is many things to many people,
but it's never been everything to anybody.


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