Hi Łukasz and Brian: I have been doing quite a bit of research in this
area recently, and also am advocating to get kernel management and
cleanup improved, especially for users who must have separate /boot
partitions. This means professional users who are required to have full
disk encryption according to company IT policies.

Using best practice to manage 3 kernel packages (e.g. oem, lowlatency-
hwe, generic-hwe) results in the need to maintain 6 kernel file sets
(latest and penultimate version for each kernel). Because of the way
kernel cleaning is scheduled, additional space is also required for at
least 2 additional images. You can see the entire reasoning and details
at LP: #1960089.

Our conclusion is that 2.0 GB is the preferred target /boot partition
size for professional systems. This is reinforced by my research which
shows many pros recommend this same size when discussing partitioning
(Just one example: https://adventures-in-
tech.blogspot.com/2018/10/encrypted-ubuntu-installation-with.html)

Given disk space these days, this seems like a small price to pay to
support best practice and (hopefully) a future unattended upgrades
algorithm that honors them as well.

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