Bug#951709: /boot should get a bigger share of disk in default installation
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 09:50:07PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
> 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
>
Not quite. If Ben says we need at least 500M, then we'll have to
adjust further, as that commit uses 512M as a maximum. For comparison
Ubuntu's partman-auto sets the min at 512M and max at 768M. Do people
feel that's where we should go?
Cheers,
Julien
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