On Tuesday 11 October 2005 20:19, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
> On 10/11/05, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > On Monday 10 October 2005 18:32, maxim wexler wrote:
> > > Hello everybody,
> > >
> > > That min-install I was talking about failed due to
> > > lack of disk space. I'm trying to install on a 3.2G
> > > drive. Partitions are :
> > > / of 1.47G  ext2
> > > /home 1.1G ext2
> > > 500M swap
> > > 100M /boot reiserfs
> >
> > why reiserfs on boot?
> > why 100mb boot?
> >
> > 10mb boot/ext2 are way enough.
>
> Except when you have more than 2 or 3 kernels for testing and need
> space for those, the "default" (Gentoo Handbook) value is 38MB... But
> you're right, reiserfs is not a good fs for /boot.
>

I have three or four kernels in /boot and have 16mb... way enough

df -h
Dateisystem          Größe Benut  Verf Ben% Eingehängt auf
...
/dev/hda1              16M   11M  4,1M  72% /boot

ls -lh /boot
.
.
.
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1,4M  1. Okt 23:39 vmlinuz-2.6.13-gentoo-r2
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1,5M  6. Okt 23:40 vmlinuz-2.6.13-gentoo-r3
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1,5M  6. Okt 03:25 vmlinuz-2.6.13-gentoo-r3.old
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1,4M  5. Okt 20:40 vmlinuz-2.6.14-rc3

if you are size constrained, /boot with more than 10mb is plain overkill.

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