On Thursday, 17. January 2002 19:05, Federico Grau wrote: > Boot is where kernels live (placed at the start of the disk for old bioses > that cannot read far into large disks ... your bios may not need it... > experiment if you have time). I have "a lot" of kernels on my system, 6 > and my boot directory takes only 7 meg. A very reasonable size for boot is > 16 meg, 32 is surely more than you will ever need.
I had a 16 MB /boot partition until kernel 2.4 came. I decided to use reiserfs and with that came the need for initrd images in /boot. When I tried to use more than 2 initrds I had not enough free diskspace on /boot. And moving the other partitions around was a major problem because I changed my mainboard since I partitioned my drive and all tools were reporting geometry errors. (IDE with LBA sucks. But without it sucks harder) When I would go for a /boot partition now, I would take 100MB. It may waste space in the beginning, but I would have no problems later... Peter ( who has no longer a /boot partition because his bios doesn't need one :)