[AuckLUG] Partitioning suggestions

[Daniel Pittman]

"razza" <razza at razza.org> writes:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:23:18 +1300 (NZDT), Chilling_Silence wrote
>
>> I would personally go with its recommendation which will probably be
>> something like:
>> /boot = 50MB
>> SWAP = 1-2GB (Depending on your RAM etc)
>> / = The rest :)

[...]

> not sure about ubuntu but on debian during a kernel upgrade i once ran
> out of room on /boot with setting it 50mb not 2 difficult to fix up
> but still ever since then i make boot a little bigger than 50mb, 

I would certainly second that advice: a current kernel runs somewhere
around 25 to 30MB in /boot; I would advise allocating as much as 500MB
or a whole gigabyte[1] to never having to worry about that.

Regards,
        Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  That is, all of 50 cents at current rates.

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