Re: /boot size and kernel updates
> On 13 Nov 2022, at 23:06, Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Stefan!
>
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
>> I use `MODULES=dep` and my kernel+initrd uses less than 20MB still so my
>> 250MB /boot partition is currently 21% full with 2 kernels installed.
>
> Ah, thanks for the tip. I'll give that a try, as well as trying more
> aggressive compression (thanks, Peter!).
Thanks - both for the feedback and the further module suggestion. I used the MODULES=dep setting and got a reduction from 70mb to 20mb for each initramfs .
The laptop still boots which is great, now need to figure if there is anything else going wrong
But as a final upshot - while I learned a lot, I think the settings for compression and modules and size of boot partition need some lining up in the automatic installer.
And as someone else has remarked the installer is a bit difficult to understand at the manual partitioning side. At least if one wants an encrypted LVM - I have not yet figured out how to do that by hand…
Peter
>
>> This said, my newer installs just don't bother with a separate
>> /boot partition.
>
> My understanding is that for LUKS-encrypted disks, /boot needs to be
> separate so that it can remain unencrypted.
>
>> PS: FWIW, my first HDD had a capacity of 50MB. I didn't consider it "large"
>> but it was quite sufficient for the system I used back then (MiNT).
>> The 500MB disk in the Alpha workstations in my university's lab seemed
>> quite large (all the home directories were on an NFS server, so most of
>> the 500MB lay unused since the OS itself used a lot less than that,
>> even that included a full X11 environment, Emacs, etc...).
>> I suspect your experience is not very different, right?
>
> I suppose so. The first computer hardware that I purchased for myself
> was a 1GB drive to supplement the storage on the sun4c system that my
> employer let me take home. I didn't need something that big, but it was
> cheap enough, and I liked not having to think much about how much
> storage I had available. My current desktop has a 1TB drive and is
> about half full, with most of the occupied storage consisting of
> VirtualBox virtual disks and snapshots.
>
> mike
>
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