From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.5 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_12_24,DMARC_NONE, INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from dsl092-067-233.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.67.233] helo=washuu.ryoohki.net) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14udCO-00008I-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 01 May 2001 10:40:29 -0600 Received: by washuu.ryoohki.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5EED0235; Tue, 1 May 2001 12:40:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Justus Pendleton To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20010501124002.A5198@ryoohki.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i Subject: [gentoo-dev] boot partition size recommendation Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue May 1 10:41:01 2001 X-Original-Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 12:40:02 -0400 X-Archives-Salt: 7ad1ae39-8a16-4279-a984-b082d1d4a6cc X-Archives-Hash: 1ba0d23fd305ad5c04e27e81f9616cc0 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