From: Oron Peled (oron_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 29 Jun 2004 - 22:29:28 IDT
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 19:38, William Sherwin wrote:
> Oron Peled wrote:
> > 100Mb should be more than enough for many kernels + their initrd and
> > symtabs.
>
> Why would anyone ever need 100 MB for a /boot partition? Mine is 16 MB -
> and only 3.5 MB of it is used...
Indeed ~20MB should be safe, but 3.5Mb barely covers two fully featured
modern kernels. My current machine has two kernel versions (the current
one and the previous for backup) in both SMB and UP configurations:
total = 9.1MB
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