Re: [newbie] 1.4 GB overkill for /boot?

[Sthitaprajna]

On 2 Jul 00, at 0:33, Thomas 2 wrote:

> When I installed LM 7.1 I let it set the three LM partition sizes (/, /boot, 
> and swap). Of the 5 GB available, it assigned about 1.4 GB to the /boot 
> partition. Now I've heard that you only need 10 MB for /boot. Am I wasteing 
> 1.4 GB? Thanks.

You most certainly are. My linux machine has a /boot = 10MB, and it 
is more than sufficient to boot debian and mandrake, and that too 
with a development kernel and a stable kernel.

Rgds
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