[AuckLUG] Partitioning suggestions

[Ravi Chemudugunta]

thats a good idea putting dsl on your boot =)

I think the kernel can grow to 30 megs if you compile drivers and such
and such as "built-in" rather than as modules;

hmm which makes me curious what goes inside initrd ? ... i know initrd
includes drivers for scsi etc so the real root can be mounted and
pivot'd over, how does makeinitrd or whatever is used know which
drivers to put into the initrd image.

just checked also, I don't have a /boot partition ... I guess its only
a necessity when one goes for other filesystem types for their /
partition as most boot loaders only have support for ext2?

cheers,

-ravi

On 10/15/07, Karl. <kmw1 at free.net.nz> wrote:
> I know that this topic has probably been resolved, but I am intrigued by
> the following:
>
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 12:02:55PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> > I would certainly second that advice: a current kernel runs somewhere
> > around 25 to 30MB in /boot;
>
> Looking at my stock Debian kernel:
>
>    $ du -h /boot/*22*686
>    84K     /boot/config-2.6.22-2-686
>    5.3M    /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-2-686
>    796K    /boot/System.map-2.6.22-2-686
>    1.4M    /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-2-686
>
> It comes to about 8Meg.  Do you put sourcecode in /boot, or is there
> something else I'm missing?  (I don't mean to be confrontational - I'm
> just curious)
>
> I just did a reinstall on the weekend - I went for 200M /boot - I figure
> that that gives me enough for plenty of kernels, plus a copy of
> DamnSmallLinux (50Meg) as a rescue distro.
>
> Karl.
>
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