[Bug 1357093] Re: LVM or Encrypted install creates too small /boot partition

[georgebaily]

Firstly, me too, this is super annoying. As a rule of thumb any
'feature' that *requires* the user to drop to CLI to put in regular
manual commands *to keep the system secure and updated* ... in a desktop
/ consumer OS... is a bug.

It seems there are separate issues here that could be addressed
separately:

1. the auto setup does not intelligently ask/warn about its default of
setting up a very small /boot

2. there exists no user-friendly auto cleanup for the things clogging up
/boot

3. the /boot does not have any elegant way of automatically (or via a
setting) "overflowing" into the (usually abundant) storage space outside
of /boot for its old kernel data etc

4. when the "full, cannot update any more" problem occurs, there is no
useful feedback or suggestion or wizard from the OS for the user... just
essentially a FU message.

5. apparently there is not an "easy" way to resize /boot to allow more
crap to accumulate and thus postpone the problem... if there *is* an
easy way then see (4) it should be provided then and there to the user;
if there is *not* an easy way then this proves the point that this is
not a trivial bug.

Addressing at least one of these would help the problem, and all could
be worked on.

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Title:
  LVM or Encrypted install creates too small /boot partition

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Currently if one chooses to use LVM or encrypted install, a /boot
  partition is created of 236Mb

  Once kernel updates start being released this partition soon fills
  until people are left unable to upgrade.

  While you and I might know that we need to watch partition space, many
  of the people we have installing think that a windows disk is a disk
  and not a partition, education is probably the key - but in the
  meantime support venues keep needing to deal with the fact the
  partition is too small and/or old kernels are not purged as new ones
  install.

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