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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot
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Alex Schuster wrote:
> Dale writes:
>
>> Alex Schuster wrote:
>>> David W Noon writes:
>>>
>>>> The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think
>>>> the idea is.  As I wrote in an earlier message on this list, the
>>>> initramfs will be many times larger than the kernel itself.  Indeed,
>>>> my /boot partition is only 32 MiB, and that will be too small to
>>>> contain all the extra libraries and programs to run the initramfs
>>>> script.
>>> Here, I only need 2.2 M for the kernel, 1.7 M for System.map, and 3.5
>>> M for the initramfs.
>> Well, that may not be the case for everyone else.
> Sure, but how much bigger are your kernels actually?
>
>> root@fireball / # du -shc /boot/
>> 84M     /boot/
>> 84M     total
>> root@fireball / #
> I get 82M, but I have ten kernels in there. What stuff do you have
> in /boot?
>
> 	Wonko
>
>

Well, I *had* several old kernels in there.  I save stable kernels as I 
upgrade until I have a really good one then I remove the older ones.  I 
always keep at least two kernels tho.  If one fails, I got a fall back.  
I have had to use those fall backs before so I won't be changing that 
policy here any time soon.

I think I had about a dozen or so in there until my cleaning out party 
last night.  I also save back up configs to just in case a kernel goes 
bad or I need to go back.  I version my kernels too.  Long story.

Dale

:-)  :-)