[AuckLUG] Partitioning suggestions

[Daniel Pittman]

"Karl." <kmw1 at free.net.nz> writes:

> 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)

That is a reasonable question: I get around 18.6MB for my current image:

] du -sh /boot/*14*
420K    /boot/abi-2.6.22-14-generic
80K     /boot/config-2.6.22-14-generic
7.8M    /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
7.8M    /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic.bak
812K    /boot/System.map-2.6.22-14-generic
1.7M    /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic

(though part of that is the backup of the initramfs image the tools
 keep.)


...ah, and there it is.  I had some notes on why the larger figure: I
had the "vmlinux" files installed for a while so that oprofile and a
similar system instrumentation tool could work effectively.  Those were
considerably large.

> 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.

It probably does; I should get back to my plan to install a second root
somewhere for that same reason. :)

Regards,
        Daniel
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