what is the minimum size of the /boot partition in ubuntu

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sat Oct 9 18:36:19 UTC 2010


On 10/09/2010 06:46 AM, Goh Lip wrote:
> On Saturday 09,October,2010 09:11 PM, user1 wrote:
>> So, what will the correct minimum size of the /boot partition for the
>> future be?
> 
> Josef, check your kernels in /boot and purge those old ones. Besides the 
> current kernel, you might want to keep just one older one. Without any 
> kernels, the /boot should take up about 1.2 MB. So 100MB should be okay 
> for a handful of kernels.
> 
> Regards - Goh Lip
> 
> 

I just purged 3 old kernels on one of my machines & it cleared about
1/2GiB (I always keep the previous). I also recommend afterwards doing:

$ sudo update-grub

before rebooting.





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