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Chris Schanzle <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:03:31 -0400
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On 08/23/2012 07:06 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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 ?


I would recommend to follow Fedora's lead: 500 MB.

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