Bug#951709: /boot should get a bigger share of disk in default installation
Hi,
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.
This has just been addressed; see
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-auto/-/commit/cf6b2d152b08b6c78da6a6f7ca26a99bdadfdfce
I will adjust the changelog to close this bug as well.
Holger
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