On Fri 14 Sep 2018 at 09:02:22 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 08:37:45AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > So, make /boot a big larger, say couple GiBs, and set data=journalled > > > > BTW, am I the only one here bothered that his 250MB /boot partition > > tends to fill up, even though a 500MB HDD was plenty to hold the whole > > OS plus lots and lots of free space, on a 64bit workstation like the > > original DEC Alphas? > > > > The /boot on the desktop I'm using right now is 150MB. 70 is > currently used. > > The kernel is just over 4MB; the initrd is 22MB. There are two > versions of each.
Wow. Why are my initrds only 5MB? I have MODULES=most in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf. > Grub eats almost 10MB. It could be pruned: there's 4MB of localisation alone, and I'm not sure why the unicode font (1MB) gets placed into both /boot/grub/ and /boot/grub/fonts/. Cheers, David.
