From: AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] boot partition size recommendation
Date: Tue May 1 12:14:01 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AEEF618.B5C0E0E4@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20010501132437.B5446@ryoohki.net
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-01 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-01 10:41 [gentoo-dev] boot partition size recommendation Justus Pendleton
2001-05-01 10:53 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-05-01 10:58 ` Sebastian Werner
2001-05-01 11:26 ` Justus Pendleton
2001-05-01 12:14 ` Achim Gottinger [this message]
2001-05-01 12:37 ` Justus Pendleton
2001-05-01 12:48 ` Achim Gottinger
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