[gentoo-dev] boot partition size recommendation

[gentoo-dev] boot partition size recommendation

[Justus Pendleton]

I'm in the process of downloading and installing gentoo and as I was
looking over the install directions I noticed that the recommendation
is for the boot partition to be ~100 megabytes.  I'm wondering why so
large?  On one of my linux boxes the boot partition is 4 MB and I'm
only using 36% of it.  I know discs are cheap but 100 MB seems like a
lot of overkill and wasted space.

Justus

Re: [gentoo-dev] boot partition size recommendation

[Daniel Robbins]

On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:40:02PM -0400, Justus Pendleton wrote:
> I'm in the process of downloading and installing gentoo and as I was
> looking over the install directions I noticed that the recommendation
> is for the boot partition to be ~100 megabytes.  I'm wondering why so
> large?  On one of my linux boxes the boot partition is 4 MB and I'm
> only using 36% of it.  I know discs are cheap but 100 MB seems like a
> lot of overkill and wasted space.
> 
> Justus

It depends on how many initrds and old kernels you like to keep around.
Adjust as you see fit.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] boot partition size recommendation

[Sebastian Werner]

For the people who want to see the development of the last years can boot so 
a nice 1.0.x version of linux... upps, there's no reiserfs-support...

happy hacking..

Sebastian

Am Dienstag,  1. Mai 2001 18:52 schrieben Sie:
> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:40:02PM -0400, Justus Pendleton wrote:
> > I'm in the process of downloading and installing gentoo and as I was
> > looking over the install directions I noticed that the recommendation
> > is for the boot partition to be ~100 megabytes.  I'm wondering why so
> > large?  On one of my linux boxes the boot partition is 4 MB and I'm
> > only using 36% of it.  I know discs are cheap but 100 MB seems like a
> > lot of overkill and wasted space.
> >
> > Justus
>
> It depends on how many initrds and old kernels you like to keep around.
> Adjust as you see fit.
>
> Best Regards,

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Re: [gentoo-dev] boot partition size recommendation

[Justus Pendleton]

On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 10:52:48AM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> It depends on how many initrds and old kernels you like to keep around.
> Adjust as you see fit.

Oh I agree completely.  It just seems like the people who DO need
recommendations on partition sizes aren't likely to have 100 MB of old
kernels sitting on their boot parition.  And the people who ARE likely
to have 100 MB of old kernels (although I can't imagine why you'd want
to do that :-) will pretty much ignore your advice anyway ;-).

Re: [gentoo-dev] boot partition size recommendation

[Achim Gottinger]

Justus Pendleton wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 10:52:48AM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> > It depends on how many initrds and old kernels you like to keep around.
> > Adjust as you see fit.
> 
> Oh I agree completely.  It just seems like the people who DO need
> recommendations on partition sizes aren't likely to have 100 MB of old
> kernels sitting on their boot parition.  And the people who ARE likely
> to have 100 MB of old kernels (although I can't imagine why you'd want
> to do that :-) will pretty much ignore your advice anyway ;-).
> 
Well initrd's can become very large ~8MB if you need them 100MB are not
too much, nut I think this is an
exception recommending 20-100 MB should be ok.

bye achim

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Re: [gentoo-dev] boot partition size recommendation

[Justus Pendleton]

On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:44:56PM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote:
> Well initrd's can become very large ~8MB if you need them 100MB are not
> too much, nut I think this is an
> exception recommending 20-100 MB should be ok.

Does gentoo actually use an initrd by default?  The install directions
make no mention of it.

Re: [gentoo-dev] boot partition size recommendation

[Achim Gottinger]

Justus Pendleton wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:44:56PM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote:
> > Well initrd's can become very large ~8MB if you need them 100MB are not
> > too much, nut I think this is an
> > exception recommending 20-100 MB should be ok.
> 
> Does gentoo actually use an initrd by default?  The install directions
> make no mention of it.
> 
We have an initrd if you want to have your root partiton on lvm in the
latest sys snaphot.
Undocumented at the moment.

bye achim~

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