Re: Enlarging /boot and swap partitions
On 2025-09-18 15:50:47 +0000, Thomas Pircher wrote:
> On 2025-09-18 15:22, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > The real issue is with the /boot partition. When I installed the
> > machine 2 years ago, the size recommended by Debian was... 25-50 MB!!!
>
> Also not a direct answer to your question, but if you are booting with EFI,
/sys/firmware/efi exists, so I assume that this is the case.
> and you are not using an ancient GRUB that upports your root file system,
I have the latest grub in Debian: 2.12-9 (EFI version).
> then you could have /boot directly on the root file system, rather
> than in a separate partition.
Thanks. I'm wondering why this was never proposed in the recent
discussions and bug reports about the /boot size issue.
I think that I have to look at
https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/756269/74516
("How to merge /boot partition into root partition")
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