On Fri 09 Apr 2021 at 21:10:20 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 09 apr 21, 09:14:31, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 09:07:04AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Jo, 08 apr 21, 07:21:04, Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE wrote: > > > > On Donnerstag, 8. April 2021 02:15:00 -04 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > > > > > For me the simplicity of having 'boot' on '/' wins in most cases. It > > > > > avoids a lot of issues (like running out of space in /boot) with no > > > > > significant downside I'm aware of. > > > > > > > > With my setups it is far more likely that / fills up than /boot so > > > > having > > > > a separate /boot partition at least allows me to boot and solve the > > > > problem easily. > > > > > > Sorry, I just can't imagine a scenario in which some space in /boot can > > > help with a full /, except maybe to (ab)use it to move stuff around(?). > > > > I think Eike's point of view is "from the other end": / filling up > > makes /boot full and thus (possibly) disfunctional, preventing the > > next boot. > > > > I'm not sure about a concrete mechanism for that, but it would be > > annoying indeed, forcing you to either whip-up a rescue medium. > > I'm not aware of anything needing to write to /boot during boot.
Technically, grub might write to /boot/grub/grubenv, but the space for that is pre-allocated, for that very reason.. > As far as I know /boot can even stay unmounted (or read-only), except > for kernel, bootloader, etc. upgrades. > > What am I missing? It might be necessary to know what Eike has in / that causes it to fill up. /var, /tmp, /home ? > > (Remember: your only computer is currently refusing to boot, and > > you lent your last USB stick [1] to that nice friend yesterday evening) > > or surgically extracting your harddisk from your flimsy laptop to... > > drats, your only computer, etc. you get the idea ;-) > > > > Cheers > > > > [1] which, of course, had a current rescue system, because everyone > > has that :-) > > apt show grml-rescueboot > > (which of course won't help if the boot device is failing, but then you > have bigger problems anyway) Cheers, David.
