Hi Stefan! Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I use `MODULES=dep` and my kernel+initrd uses less than 20MB still so my > 250MB /boot partition is currently 21% full with 2 kernels installed. Ah, thanks for the tip. I'll give that a try, as well as trying more aggressive compression (thanks, Peter!). > This said, my newer installs just don't bother with a separate > /boot partition. My understanding is that for LUKS-encrypted disks, /boot needs to be separate so that it can remain unencrypted. > PS: FWIW, my first HDD had a capacity of 50MB. I didn't consider it "large" > but it was quite sufficient for the system I used back then (MiNT). > The 500MB disk in the Alpha workstations in my university's lab seemed > quite large (all the home directories were on an NFS server, so most of > the 500MB lay unused since the OS itself used a lot less than that, > even that included a full X11 environment, Emacs, etc...). > I suspect your experience is not very different, right? I suppose so. The first computer hardware that I purchased for myself was a 1GB drive to supplement the storage on the sun4c system that my employer let me take home. I didn't need something that big, but it was cheap enough, and I liked not having to think much about how much storage I had available. My current desktop has a 1TB drive and is about half full, with most of the occupied storage consisting of VirtualBox virtual disks and snapshots. mike
