Re: Out of space error from dpkg, but I can't see where
On 2026-01-12, Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
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>> Why is /boot a separate partition? On my other trixie system (not
>> EFI) everything is just one partition. Both systems were installed
>> 'from scratch' and I just let the installer do default partitioning.
>> Does EFI really need to be so much more complicated?
>
> Not usually no. I can't speak of what the installer does by default, so
> I don't doubt what you say, it's just that I always do it manually.
I used to take the defaults because I was afraid of manual partitioning
(in those bygone years when you had to worry about "sectors" and all
that jazz), but Debian would give you a tiny root partition (if you
asked for a separate home partition, which I always did).
These days, though, when partitioning manually, it's easy as pie: you can
enter a percentage as a value and you're good to go.
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