On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Mr IT Guru wrote:

> I'd do the following:
>
> Partition my hard disks
> Create a 100M partition as a boot partition at the start of the disk

I have a machine with a 100M boot partition.
With SL6 kernels taking >20MB of /boot/ I find that this
is no longer comfortable and would recommend a larger boot partition.

This machine has SL5 and SL6 personalities, with xen and non-xen
kernels for SL5, so I keep finding that I have to remove the
previous SL6 kernel before I can install the next one.

It dosn't help that the main disk has two partitions:
the boot partition and an LVM physical volume containing
everything else, so growing the boot partition would be
a big job.

Forty kernels is a lot, but 1GB is no longer a lot of disk,
so it is difficult to say how big /boot should be;
perhaps "200MB-1GB" is appropriate advice ?

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