On 2026-01-12, Andy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Why is /boot a separate partition? On my other trixie system (not >> EFI) everything is just one partition. Both systems were installed >> 'from scratch' and I just let the installer do default partitioning. >> Does EFI really need to be so much more complicated? > > Not usually no. I can't speak of what the installer does by default, so > I don't doubt what you say, it's just that I always do it manually.
I used to take the defaults because I was afraid of manual partitioning (in those bygone years when you had to worry about "sectors" and all that jazz), but Debian would give you a tiny root partition (if you asked for a separate home partition, which I always did). These days, though, when partitioning manually, it's easy as pie: you can enter a percentage as a value and you're good to go.
