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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:40:26
Message-Id: 200510112036.40061.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place by Daniel da Veiga
1 On Tuesday 11 October 2005 20:19, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
2 > On 10/11/05, Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
3 wrote:
4 > > On Monday 10 October 2005 18:32, maxim wexler wrote:
5 > > > Hello everybody,
6 > > >
7 > > > That min-install I was talking about failed due to
8 > > > lack of disk space. I'm trying to install on a 3.2G
9 > > > drive. Partitions are :
10 > > > / of 1.47G ext2
11 > > > /home 1.1G ext2
12 > > > 500M swap
13 > > > 100M /boot reiserfs
14 > >
15 > > why reiserfs on boot?
16 > > why 100mb boot?
17 > >
18 > > 10mb boot/ext2 are way enough.
19 >
20 > Except when you have more than 2 or 3 kernels for testing and need
21 > space for those, the "default" (Gentoo Handbook) value is 38MB... But
22 > you're right, reiserfs is not a good fs for /boot.
23 >
24
25 I have three or four kernels in /boot and have 16mb... way enough
26
27 df -h
28 Dateisystem Größe Benut Verf Ben% Eingehängt auf
29 ...
30 /dev/hda1 16M 11M 4,1M 72% /boot
31
32 ls -lh /boot
33 .
34 .
35 .
36 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,4M 1. Okt 23:39 vmlinuz-2.6.13-gentoo-r2
37 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,5M 6. Okt 23:40 vmlinuz-2.6.13-gentoo-r3
38 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,5M 6. Okt 03:25 vmlinuz-2.6.13-gentoo-r3.old
39 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,4M 5. Okt 20:40 vmlinuz-2.6.14-rc3
40
41 if you are size constrained, /boot with more than 10mb is plain overkill.
42
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