On Tue, 2025-09-16 at 16:08 -0600, home user via users wrote: > I know a few people have encountered running out of storage space when a > kernel gets patched or upgraded. It happened to me a few times. I > recall seeing somewhere that this can be avoided with wise partitioning, > which is a part of installation. I also recall seeing that kernels have > grown quite a lot over the years. (Hmmm... Is someone feeding them > too much fructose and other "refined carbs"?)
My Fedora 32 installation has a /boot partition that's just under 1 gig, and I think it may have picked that size by itself, I cannot really remember. I seem to recall that the install routine picks 1 gig as a default size, these days. I have 5 kernels and the rescue one. It seems big enough for me. But then I always do fresh installs, so any new installation isn't limited by any older decisions. Looking through the output of "df -h"... My efi partition is only using 7.5 megs of a 600 meg partition, My boot is using 581 megs of a 960 meg partition, the system root is using 9 gigs of a 15 gig partition, and that's the lot. It didn't set up a swap partition, or swap file, and I apparently haven't suffered any ill effects from that. My system root has everything in it, on that PC. It's actually a 15 gig LVM inside a 476 gig partition, the rest of which is just empty space. Supposedly, that would allow me to install the next Fedora release separately into its own partition inside that, if I chose to. Or let me have a big workspace if I was doing something that used huge files. It's a very basic install, I've only added a few applications, and don't really store files on it. There are some advantages to having drive and partition sizes much bigger than you need, and not using all of the drive. Supposedly, you're never going to come close to filling them, and that leaves plenty of spare space for automatic bad block handling by the device. Oh yes, bad blocks happen, and we don't know about it much of the time because the drive has self-managed it. We tend to find out about it when it can't do that any more. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
