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Bug#1076823: marked as done (partman-auto: please increase default size of /boot)

Your message dated Tue, 10 Sep 2024 21:57:44 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1076823: fixed in partman-auto 167
has caused the Debian Bug report #1076823,
regarding partman-auto: please increase default size of /boot
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Source: installation-guide
Version: 20230623
Severity: normal

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In bug #1076582 it was pointed out that the documentation at
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apcs05.en.html

has the following line:
"create a small (25–50MB should suffice) partition at the beginning
of the disk to be used as the boot partition"

Earlier in that bug and also in #1076539 (which likely is the same
issue) I made the argument that 512MB (the current d-i default) for the
``/boot`` partition is already problematic.

https://bugs.debian.org/960181#15 contains the following line:

> There may be a bug here, in that the /boot partition was too small.
> That has been fixed in the installer, but unfortunately we don't have
> a general way to grow the partition on installed systems.

And there have been other reports that the kernel is getting too big.

Plymouth is installed by default and that includes the GPU modules and
the firmware for it. And the firmware files have been getting bigger
too, especially for nvidia where they just added firmware files which
are respectively 23MB and 38MB in size ... (sigh)

So the recommendation of a 25-50MB ``/boot`` partition is BAD.
REALLY BAD as "we don't have a general way to grow the partition
on installed systems."

But then I read a bit further on the above referenced page and found the
following:

- - "If you have a large IDE disk"
- - "This restriction doesn't apply if you have a BIOS newer than around 1995–98"
- - Seeing the word "cylinder" all over the place ...
- - "CHS translation mode (“Large”)" = Cylinder/Head/Sector I presume?

At that point I fell off my chair :-O

Or as I phrased it in https://bugs.debian.org/1076582#27 :
"Maybe that document should be updated for this CENTURY?"

I actually think this bug should be RC, but couldn't (quickly) find
which (if any) Policy rules it violated.
And 'critical' is possibly a bit much?

But I think these recommendations ought to be updated before Trixie is
released and possibly current Stable docs updated in case someone
follows the Installation Guide recommendation (which is normally and
otherwise a good thing).

For ``/boot`` size it should minimally follow d-i's default, but I
actually think both should be updated to 1G in size, which should
(generally) not be a problem with current TBs NVMe drives.

Cheers,
  Diederik

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.9.9-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

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Source: partman-auto
Source-Version: 167
Done: Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
partman-auto, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1076823@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> (supplier of updated partman-auto package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 22:40:04 +0200
Source: partman-auto
Architecture: source
Version: 167
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>
Closes: 929322 972396 987503 1076753 1076823 1076952
Changes:
 partman-auto (167) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload
 .
   [ Holger Wansing ]
   * Increase default size of /boot partition. See MR!13.
     Closes: #1076823, #1076753, #972396.
 .
   [ Pascal Hambourg ]
   * Update partition defaults for current and future needs; see MR15:
     * Update partition size limits in predefined recipes.
     * Add server recipe for machines with much RAM; limits the size of swap
       partition to 1G.
     * Add small_disk recipe for automatic partitioning on very small disks
       (3GB-10GB) which are not big enough for other recipes.
     * Update small_disk recipe description.
     * choose_recipe(): check built-in recipe contains lvmok tag if using LVM.
     * Closes: #987503, #929322, #1076952.
   * Add build_recipes script as a tool to help with building recipes.
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