Re: Enlarging /boot and swap partitions

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>]

Vincent Lefevre composed on 2025-08-16 03:46 (UTC+0200):

> On 2025-08-15 01:15:12 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

>> I suggest you realistically evaluate your actual need based upon
>> your existing initrd sizes. I have about two dozen Trixie
>> installations. They are all about the same as follows (none using
>> separate /boot/ partitions):

>> # du -sh /disks/deb12/boot/
>> 255M    /disks/deb12/boot/
>> # ls -gGh /disks/deb12/boot/vmlinuz-6* /disks/deb12/boot/initrd.img-6*
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 9.2M Nov  5  2024 /disks/deb12/boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-26-amd64
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 9.2M Jan 21  2025 /disks/deb12/boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-30-amd64
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 9.2M Mar 21 18:20 /disks/deb12/boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-32-amd64
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 9.0M Apr 30 16:42 /disks/deb12/boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-34-amd64
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 9.0M Jul 22 23:30 /disks/deb12/boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-37-amd64
> [...]

> The normal size of an initrd image (i.e. by installing the
> recommended packages) is not about 9 MB, but now 100 MB:

> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  99M 2025-05-27 23:26:17 initrd.img-6.7.12-amd64
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104M 2025-08-11 23:40:35 initrd.img-6.12.38+deb13-amd64

> (this is with maximum compression). 
I don't think I've ever seen one bigger than about 40M. And, like i wrote, "based
upon your existing sizes". If you didn't need kitchen sinks in yours before
Trixie, it's unlikely you need them in it, at least, not more than one such.
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