[Novalug] Size of /boot

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Wed May 14 20:31:19 EDT 2014


boot as a separate partition is a good idea.

500M is smallest I would use and 1G is fine.



On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Jay Hart <jhart@kevla.org> wrote:

> My current /boot partition is 100MB.  DU reports 76MB being used.  The
> file browser reports 7
> items totaling 5.7MB stored in the directory.
>
> Obviously I'm concerned about having enough space (on this partition)
> upgrading from Fedora 13 to
> Fedora 20.  If this partition is not big enough I either:
>
> 1. Have to repartition the whole drive (this partition is sda1)
>
> or
>
> 2. Just mount /boot as part of /
>
> / is 10GB, using about 1GB
>
> I've always had /boot mounted on its own partition, but old dogs can learn
> new tricks.
>
> I'm more inclined to trust DU, but that is big difference from 76MB to
> 5.7MB being used, unless
> the 71MB [diff] is the kernel being unpacked and ran upon booting.
>
> Jay
>
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