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On Sat, 2020-08-15 at 12:56 +0200, Pablo R wrote:
> Package: partman-auto
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I recently assisted a friend in her installation of Debian over the
> phone.
> Going through manual partitionning over the phone would be too
> bothersome so I told her to use the automated partitionning option
> that uses a whole disk with LVM and encryption.
>
> Everything went well except that a few weeks later my friend's
> computer would not boot: apparently, a kernel update had gone wrong
> because the /boot partition was full.
> Of course my friend did not see the problem during the update because
> she did not know she had to pay attention to that.
>
> I had the same problem myself a bit more than 10 years ago, and since
> then I always do partitioning manually during installs so I did not
> know until then that too small /boot partition was still a thing.
>
> The default should probably be like 1GB or even 2GB to be safe :).
[...]
This is fixed in the current version of partman-auto, though not (yet)
in stable.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky
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